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Kinda surprised to not see Perl in there in some form, since it's still around as the glue holding a lot of older systems together (and for new stuff, but that'
by kbenson 6y ago
Kinda surprised to not see Perl in there in some form, since it's still around as the glue holding a lot of older systems together (and for new stuff, but that's not the point of this article). Then again, it's got a little bit different of a story, since most (almost all) the old Perl from decades ago will run find on a brand new Perl interpreter released recently.
- hedora 6y agoPerl 5 is still actively supported, unlike python 2.
- pinewurst 6y agoI have a Perl problem right now. It's not the Perl interpreter at all, which as you say runs the old code fine. It's the hierarchy (read as "dungheap") of package dependencies that have changed since the last primary software version was installed.
- kbenson 6y agoWell, the good thing is all those old versions of modules are archived[1] and you can still get them if you really need to, and there are utils to spider the dependency chain and tell you the packages and versions (and I think stuff that will make sure those versions get fetched) on CPAN itself, so it shouldn't be too hard to get the prior stuff up and running if you go that route (even if it might have security implications). The only stuff it would be hard to back down in versions would be core stuff, but I'm not aware of any core Perl modules that have had breaking API changes. 1: http://backpan.cpantesters.org/ http://backpan.cpantesters.org/ Edit: Cleaned up an ambiguous sentence in the middle there.