use Perl

Newest Red Hat includes newest Perl

posted by chip on 2002.11.27 18:21   

Paul Barry writes "Just installed RedHat 8 and was delighted to see that it includes Perl 5.8.0 as standard. Cool." Nice that even a mostly Python shop like Red Hat is keeping up.

• And mod_perl (Score:1)

  by jmerelo (3498)

  Yes, and it includes a beta version of mod_perl, and a version of apache with mod_cgi broken. If you have a production website, wait a bit until you move to RH 8.0
• Problems with Redhat 5.8.0 (Score:2)

  by 2shortplanks (968)

  Wern't there some problems with the 5.8.0 binary that ships with redhat - I know the Template Toolkit list has been seeing some bug reports from users of that system.

  Mark ferrets around a bit in archives

  Ah, yes, it was mentioned in a P5P Summary [perl.org]
• CGI problems? (Score:1)

  by jorton (3749)

  Please file bugs [redhat.com] on how CGI is broken in 8.0.