On MT4 and Perl 5.10
This is an important bit of information that I meant to put out there for anyone “Googling” on the topic.
A thread on the MT community forums reported having trouble running MT 4.0 with Perl 5.10.
I replied that the particular error “may be related to [Perl] v5.10 disallowing a sloppy program practice or it may be some difference in the ActiveState implementation.”
Chris Ernest Hall, QA manager at Six Apart, wrote me to let me know (he wasn’t able to get the message out to mt-dev where the topic was later picked up) that that particular error was a known issue that was fixed in MT 4.1. He also noted that “there are numerous other problems with Perl 5.10.0 in terms of necessary database libraries not being available. So, right now, Perl 5.10.0 (the ActiveState version at least) is not compatible with MT.”
The bottom line is MT 4 and MT 4.1 should not be run on Perl 5.10.0 at this time.
This is not uncommon when a new a “dot zero” release of any software is released. The good news is that MT works perfectly well with the latest stable release of Perl 5.8. Users just need to be a bit patient before jumping to the latest greatest version of Perl with their MT systems.
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