Reverting to 5.60

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Ryan Hovey - 09 Nov 2003 12:01 GMT

Hi there,

I went to 5.61 on OS X 10.1.5 and now am having troubles with the implementation of mod_perl on this machine. I tried recompiling mod_perl for 5.61 but am still having problems.

Anyone know of an easy way to go back to 5.60 ??

Thanks,

Ryan Hovey

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Morbus Iff - 09 Nov 2003 15:25 GMT

>Anyone know of an easy way to go back to 5.60 ??

It's possible to re-extract the 5.60 installation from your original OS
X CDs using a tool called Pacifist, but it won't be fun or easy ;)

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Gregg R Allen - 10 Nov 2003 01:12 GMT

> Hi there,
>
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> Ryan Hovey

The latest version (Panther) is 10.1.3. I've had numerous compatibility
problems with Panther at home, so I am waiting a while, for patches,
before installing it on the 15 Mac's I'm responsible for at work. I
also tried to go back to Perl 5.6, and succeeded, by removing all the
5.8 files and then downloading and recompiling 5.6, but the next time I
visited CPAN, it "did me the favor" of upgrading to 5.8 without asking
me.

Gregg Allen

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Chris Devers - 12 Nov 2003 04:01 GMT

On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, gregg R Allen wrote:

> > I went to 5.61 on OS X 10.1.5 and now am having troubles with the
> > implementation of mod_perl on this machine. I tried recompiling
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> The latest version (Panther) is 10.1.3.

Or 10.3.1 even :-)

> I also tried to go back to Perl 5.6, and succeeded, by removing all the
> 5.8 files and then downloading and recompiling 5.6, but the next time I
> visited CPAN, it "did me the favor" of upgrading to 5.8 without asking
> me.

That's a known bug with an old version of CPAN.pm. If you go into the CPAN
shell and do an "install CPAN", it'll just upgrade the broken version. If
on the other hand you do "install Bundle::CPAN", then it'll slurp up the
latest Perl version as well. Oops.

CPANPLUS seems to be a bit nicer anyway, and as far as I know it has never
had that bug.

I've been having quirks with both CPAN libraries though -- I installed
readline support, and something didn't go quite right. Line wraps, for
example, start one character to the left of the left edge of the window,
with the first letter up a row & back -- very annoying. I was hoping that
the Panter upgrade would make this go away, but it didn't seem to help.

Has anyone else seen behavior like that? It's annoying, but not a huge
impediment to getting things done, so I haven't brought it up before...

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David Dierauer - 12 Nov 2003 16:38 GMT

> I've been having quirks with both CPAN libraries though -- I installed
> readline support, and something didn't go quite right. Line wraps, for
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> Has anyone else seen behavior like that? It's annoying, but not a huge
> impediment to getting things done, so I haven't brought it up before...

Yes, I've been seeing this behavior since 10.1 on 5.6.0, 5.6.1, 5.8.0,
5.8.1. Haven't had a chance to check it in Panther, though..

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Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / November 2003

Reverting to 5.60