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The difficulty maintaining Perl comes from the large number of modules that will only work with the perl version it was compiled with. A module might work with
by Goladus 16y ago
The difficulty maintaining Perl comes from the large number of modules that will only work with the perl version it was compiled with. A module might work with any version 5.8 or later, but only one version at a time. So if you upgrade perl on a system, you'll have to re-install the module from CPAN as well.
- chromatic 16y agoYou mean XS modules, and any well-written XS module should be binary compatible with any other point release. That is to say, if you compiled an XS module against Perl 5.10, it should work unchanged with Perl 5.10.1.