Re: upgrade to Perl 5.10

On 21/10/2010 16:40, Daniel Wilson wrote:
> Hello Perl Community,
>
> I am currently using "v5.8.8 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread" and 
> would like to upgrade to v5.10.  Since this is for my company use, I 
> really don't want to screw this up.  I would appreciate any help or 
> suggestions you may have.
>
> From what I have read (release notes,etc)
> I should do the following:
>
> 1).  ppm install PPM-Profile
> 2).  ppmprofile save C:\profile.xml
> 3).  uninstall Perl v5.8.8
> 4).  clean install Perl v5.10
> 5).  ppm install PPM-Profile
> 6).  ppmprofile restore C:\profile.xml     #This
> should restore all of my non-standard packages into Perl 5.10 
> correct?

I'd recommend trying this on another machine first to ensure all the 
ppms are available for 5.10. Don't forget to add in the other repos.


Lyle

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