<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:tahoma, 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div></div><div><br> </div>---<br>Mark Mertel<br>mark.mertel@yahoo.com<div><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Joshua ben Jore <twists@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Michael R. Wolf <MichaelRWolf@att.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> SPUG Members <members@seattleperl.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wed, April 21, 2010 7:43:22 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: SPUG: How do *you* install multiple versions of Perl?<br></font><br>
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Michael R. Wolf <<a ymailto="mailto:MichaelRWolf@att.net" href="mailto:MichaelRWolf@att.net">MichaelRWolf@att.net</a>> wrote:<br>> As a follow-up to the Josh's (general, theoretical) talk last night on Perl<br>> 5.12, I'd like to pose a (specific, practical) question:<br>> How do you install and use multiple versions of Perl on a single machine?<br>><br>> I'm interested because, even 2 years after its introduction, Perl 5.10 is<br>> still not common in many environments (default OS installations, web hosting<br>> services, corporate IT environments, etc). I'm guessing (based on my own<br>> experience) that it's often easier for folks not on the cutting edge to use<br>> the given version of Perl (usually 5.8) instead of stepping up to a newer<br>> one.<br>><br>> Perhaps sharing how you do it would encourage others to do so.<br><br>I've always just encouraged installing
it into a directory named after<br>the version. So:<br><br>DON'T:<br> /usr<br> /usr/local<br> /usr/local/perl<br><br>DO:<br> /usr/local/perl-5.12.0<br> /opt/perl-5.12.0<br><br>Or, if you want to run things just for yourself,<br><br> ~/bin/perl-5.12.0<br><br>You can always add the perl .../bin directory to your path.<br><br>If you're on Windows, let Strawberry Perl install itself wherever it wants.<br><br>Or maybe avoid installing Perl to any directory with spaces in it.<br>Unfortunately, this might mean you need administrator privileges. If<br>you can't avoid that, then you may find yourself upgrading core parts<br>of our perl infrastructure to be safe for spaces. Others have avoided<br>making all of that work, I think.<br><br>Josh<br>_____________________________________________________________<br>Seattle Perl Users Group Mailing List<br> POST TO: <a
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