On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 02:32:35PM -0800, L A Walsh wrote: Greetings,
> Can we have an older perl, say, perl-5.0.16? works for my stuff mostly > unchanged, You sure you mean 5.0.16? That's really, really old! Maybe you mean 5.16.1? The earliest perl version I have in my archives for Cygwin is perl-5.6.1 from 2001. and that's for 32-bit only. I don't have anything earlier. Earliest 64-bit appears to be perl-5.14.4 > I can't get many cpan things to work with current perl. > > Things like > Term::Size::chars no longer works as it says chars isn't exported. > but it is 'EXPORT_OK', and it used to work. > > Too many things break on cpan on new perls....seems like > building CPAN should be part of the perl test suite or if > they won't fix a module in CPAN or won't fix perl to keep a compatibility > mode then the module gets kicked out of CPAN -- > and Perl doesn't get released until all modules remaining in CPAN > work. > > Meanwhile....we had a 5.18 for a while, and that worked...but the new stuff. > I can't pull new versions from CPAN and expect anything to work... 5.18 is at least a little newer (2014), but still pretty old. You can pull the source from the official perl site and build your own, though getting to the source is a little convoluted, but try here: https://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/ > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- --=> Peter A. Castro Email: doctor at fruitbat dot org / Peter dot Castro at oracle dot com "Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
