[Catalyst] Perl version jump 5.8.0 -> 5.8.1

[Brandon Black]

On 11/23/05, Uwe Voelker <uwe.voelker at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using Catalyst on a server with only Perl 5.8.0 and Cat 5.56
> installed. Now I wanted to upgrade to 5.57:
>
> ERROR: perl: Version 5.008 is installed, but we need version >= 5.008001
> at inc/Module/Install/Makefile.pm -
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/Module/Install/Makefile.pm line 82.
> [ERROR] Could not run '/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL': ERROR: perl: Version
> 5.008 is installed, but we need version >= 5.008001 at
> inc/Module/Install/Makefile.pm -
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/Module/Install/Makefile.pm line 82.
>  -- cannot continue
>
>
> Why does Cat now need v5.8.1?
>

I know it's no consolation, because I'm sure you're stuck with 5.8.0
because your vendor packaged it that way (I know, I have some 3,564
boxes with a vendor 5.8.0 perl installed on them, it sucks), but if
it's at all possible for you, you really should upgrade your perl
packages to 5.8.1 or higher.  Anything but 5.8.0.

5.8.0 was rife with serious bugs (aren't all point releases?), and for
the life of me I cannot understand why some Linux vendors put 5.8.0
out there in their rpms, and then never released a patch-update to
5.8.1+ for those particular releases of their operating systems.

-- Brandon