[Ottawa-pm] Repackaging Perl modules (was Wanted: 5 Perl Programmers)

[Clayton Scott]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 2:12 AM, Dave O'Neill <dmo at acm.org> wrote:
> The biggest annoyance on Red Hat is that they retain ancient dual-lifed
> modules as part of the core perl RPM, making conflicts inevitable when you
> want to ship something that requires the newer one.  And they blame upstream
> Perl for shipping them with the base language when asked about it :(

This is why my preference (especially for RedHat) is to compile (and
package) my own perl
that's completely independent of the OS perl so that you don't have to
stick to 5.8.9 (or worse)
when 5.10.1 and 5.12.3 are available and no long bleeding edge.

Clayton

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Clayton Scott
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