Perl 5.05_03

[Mike Blatsos]

Does any one know where I can get a copy of Perl 5.05_03 for HP_UX 11.0?

My DBA's say the perl 5.6.1 doesn't work the same.

[harry d brown jr]

Mike,

What is missing from 5.6.1 that 5.05_03 had in it? Did you have extra modules loaded in your old 5.05_03? Do the DBA's know what is missing?

live free or die
harry

[Mike Blatsos]

They tell me modules are missing, but the install(s) were as is from the porting center. No extra modules were added.

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

I'm very skeptical of this. I suspect that there are simply some modules that need to be loaded and you will have exactly the same problem with any version of Perl. In any event, your only practical alternative, if you want that old a version, is to download the source from http://www.perl.org/CPAN and compile/link it yourself.

Although I only know an itty-bitty bit about Perl, I have never seen a problem using a later version of Perl unless the code itself was very questionable.

[Jeff Schussele]

Here's the URL for the 5.005_03 source:

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/language/info/software.html#previous

Rgds,
Jeff

[harry d brown jr]

Mike,

You need to get a list of modules they need and add them to 5.6.1, otherwise if you get an older version, you are going to have the exact same issues.

All they need to do is look for the "use" clause in their perl scripts.

live free or die
harry

[Jeff Schussele]

I agree with Harry. They're probably scapegoating here.
At the very least, if you have to install 5.005_03 do it in a diff location & LEAVE 5.6.1 there.

Jeff

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Mike


Try www.perl.com , and go to downloads for 5.05_03, I dont think there should be an issue with 5.6.X


Manoj Srivastava

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Mike

Here it is

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/language/info/software.html


Manoj Srivastava