ftp mirror and perl5?

From: J.Amon <BAMON_at_OCVAXC.CC.OBERLIN.EDU>
Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 15:17:13 -0400 (EDT)

The README.perl5 from ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/mirror/, dated
November 22, 1994, states the following:

  mirror does not work reliably with perl5. The perl5-patches found in this
  directory go a long way towards fixing things but I am still getting
  reports of serious problems. For now I recommend sticking with perl4
  unless you unusually brave!

Is this still the case? We're using Perl5 with majordomo. I'd like
to use mirror, but would rather not use perl4. I honestly don't even
know what would be involved with using two different versions of
Perl on the same machine.

It would seem that since November (5 months), someone would have
fixed mirror to run with perl5. Is this not yet the case? Does
anybody have any info?

Thanks,
  Jennifer

_____________________________________________________________________
Jennifer R. Amon PHONE: (216) 775-6987
Houck Computing Center FAX: (216) 775-8573
Oberlin College INTERNET: bamon_at_ocvaxc.cc.oberlin.edu
Oberlin, OH 44074 Home Page: http://amon.cc.oberlin.edu/
_____________________________________________________________________
Received on Wed May 17 1995 - 15:17:50 NZST

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed Nov 08 2023 - 11:53:45 NZDT