PERL Beginners - should be a seamless upgrade?

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should be a seamless upgrade?

Tom Arnall

2006-06-24, 8:01 am

There's a new CPAN.pm version (v1.87) available!
[Current version is v1.7601]
You might want to try
install Bundle::CPAN
reload cpan
without quitting the current session. It should be a seamless upgrade
WHILE WE ARE RUNNING...

do not the cap'd words mean that i can continue doing the install/whatever
which i originally came to do? 'install Bundle::CPAN' however ties the
utility up until the cpan install is done.

Tom Arnall
north spit, ca

Tom Phoenix

2006-06-24, 8:01 am

On 6/22/06, tom arnall <kloro2006@gmail.com> wrote:

> without quitting the current session. It should be a seamless upgrade
> WHILE WE ARE RUNNING...

That means that you don't need to restart the CPAN shell to benefit
from the upgrade. You do, however, have to download, build, test, and
install the upgrade before you can benefit from it; and all that can
take some time. There's no way to install anything else while that's
happening, either, which is probably a good thing to avoid tricky
concurrency issues. The bugfixes and occasional new features of an
upgrade are generally worth the effort, but feel free to postpone any
upgrade until you need to apply it.

....or even a moment earlier. Cheers!

--Tom Phoenix
Stonehenge Perl Training

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