risks in upgrading Perl ?

[collins]

On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 09:10, Net Llama! wrote:
> I have a box that currently has perl-5.6.0 installed.  Is there any risk 
> in upgrading it to 5.6.1 or 5.8.0?  I have this vague memory of the 
> possibility of breakage.

Don't know.  I've been on 5.8.0 for a long time.  Nothing has broken
during any perl upgrades on gentoo, but binary distros have a whole
order of magnitude more sensitivity to package versions.

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Collins Richey - Denver Area
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