Nicholas,
Cisco are very much "if its not broken don't fix it" - they are
generally slow to use new technologies. We are still using standard
htaccess file with lists of user names for authentification, which
causes a huge problem for large htaccess file because of the 8K limit
and I've been struggling for over a year now to get them to move to
mod_perl. I will pose your question to the euro sysadmin guy, but when I
spoke to him he basically said that they are in the middle of upgrading
all the servers and moving everything to the US - and the
researhc/preparation and application testing necessary to move to 5.8
wouldn't fit in with the available resources.
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Nicholas Clark [mailto:nick(_at_)unfortu(_dot_)net]
Sent: 20 November 2002 20:02
To: Mark Proctor
Cc: 'Andreas J. Koenig'; perl-unicode(_at_)perl(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: CGI and UTF
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 05:38:20PM -0000, Mark Proctor wrote:
[upgrading from 5.6.1 to 5.8]
I have checked with the sysadmins at cisco and they said "no way" :(
I'm not asking this as an attempt to provide arguments to give them back
- if
they are sure of their position, then it is necessary to work within it.
But did they say *why* they are so insistent that 5.8.0 is not feasible?
[such as house policy on not using .0 versions? time taken to assess and
approve releases meaning that approving 5.8.0 is a lot of effort?
Something specific they don't like about 5.8.0?]
Basically is there something that the perl development community needs
to do
(or change) that would avoid this in future?
Nicholas Clark
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