Perl 5.14.2 the next chosen child

[bits]

In the coming month I would suggest lots of Linux and BSD users will come in and request 5.14.2 support.

Just a heads up

[Ron Olsen]

LMS 7.7.x runs fine using Perl 5.14.2 on Fedora 16 (VortexBox 2.0).

[bits]

I found I had to rebuild under Debian for ARM

[andyg]

Yes this should already work, however we don't provide 5.14 BSD builds, only Linux.

[sbp]

Thanks, so do 7.6.2 also work with the new Perl?

[gharris999]

Thanks, so do 7.6.2 also work with the new Perl?

No, it doesn't. You'd have to build new CPAN modules for perl 5.14. That's about a day's work for an amateur like me.

See: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88250 for what's involved. Change sim909's instructions so that "5.12.3" becomes "5.14.2".

[bits]

For 7.7 I found my box was missing and required g++ and bzip2 to be able to build.

[sbp]

No, it doesn't. You'd have to build new CPAN modules for perl 5.14. That's about a day's work for an amateur like me.

See: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88250 for what's involved. Change sim909's instructions so that "5.12.3" becomes "5.14.2".

Thanks. Do you think that version 7.6.2 at a later time will be updated to a newer Perl module?

I have newer compiled anything, so it seems like a major task.

[gharris999]

Thanks. Do you think that version 7.6.2 at a later time will be updated to a newer Perl module?

I have newer compiled anything, so it seems like a major task.

I'm going to take a guess here and say 'probably not.' The last check-in to 7.6's source code was back in September. All activity coming from the developers has been going towards LMS 7.7.

On the other hand, maybe Andy will jump in here and say "Of course! It will only take me a jiff!"

But absent that, if I do manage to compile the 7.6.2 modules for 5.14.2 sometime in a couple of weeks, I'll try to post them, or a link to them, on the Linux forum.

[sbp]

Thanks I hope you will find the time to compile 7.6.2 for the newest PERL.

I don't understand why it should be so difficult with the updating Perl in different Linux distros and to get Squeezebox server running nicely?

Why will it break Squeezebox server if we update Perl to the newest one? As I understand Perl is backward compatible?
The best thing would be that when installing Squeezeboxserver, it would check for what version of Perl - and then update Perl accordingly.