[Koha-devel] Prepackaged perl distro

[Joe Atzberger]

> Why would you deduce that it is the Perl CORE at fault?


I didn't: It's not my bug.  The conclusion was that the 5.10 installation as
whole held some incompatibility.  I agree the slippery XML parser is a
likely culprit (and a serious pain), possibly because the "wrong" one is
already pre-installed(?) for the OS.


> using Perl since 1995 and have *never* encountered incompatibilities
> going forward.


See the "Incompatible Changes" section of perldelta for any release,
including the current one:
http://perldoc.perl.org/perldelta.html#Incompatible-Changes
http://perldoc.perl.org/perl561delta.html#Incompatible-Changes
http://perldoc.perl.org/perl58delta.html#Incompatible-Changes

Perl is still a model to me of how things should go, but the number of times
it has been necessary to break compatibility is non-zero.

--joe
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