Re: For those who have upgraded before...

"Sherm Pendley" <sherm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> On Apr 21, 2005, at 1:17 PM, Robert wrote:
>
>> Tiger is coming with a newer version of Perl (5.8.6 I believe).  When I 
>> do an
>> upgrade does the installer wipe out everything I have already setup  via
>> CPAN? Or can I just do arecompile...and keep running?
>
> Your Perl modules won't be deleted unless you use the "clean install" 
> option, which deletes *everything*.
>
> /Library/Perl/5.8.1 & /Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-yadda is included in 
> @INC by default. So far as Perl itself is concerned, 5.8.6 (which is  what 
> Tiger ships with) is binary-compatible with modules built for  5.8.1.
>
> Note that there's no guarantee that *every* module will work  perfectly, 
> just that the interface between Perl and its modules  hasn't changed. If 
> you have a Perl module that's a wrapper for  libFoo, there's also the 
> question of whether the binary interface to  libFoo has changed or not. If 
> it has, you'd need to rebuild that  module against the newer libFoo.
>
> sherm--
>
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Thanks!

Robert