From kleiweg@let.rug.nl  Wed May  1 00:17:10 2002
From: kleiweg@let.rug.nl (Peter Kleiweg)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 01:17:10 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Rd] maketitle.pl for Perl 4.004
In-Reply-To: <15566.58586.18835.665434@mithrandir.hornik.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0205010059110.351-100000@kleigh.nl>

Kurt Hornik scribeva...

> > In either case, you probably want to upgrade. Even 5.005 is "old",
> > so the upgrade to 5.6.1 is probably advisable.
>
> Correct.  R 1.6 will unconditionally assume 5.005.

I am sorry to hear that.

> >> 1.4.1 instead. Can I expect this to cause any problems, for
> >> instance when I build a package?
>
> > Possibly, though probably only Kurt et al could say for sure.
>
> As Fritz said: yes, but I'd recommend upgrading Perl to 5.005 or even
> 5.6.1.

Unfortunately, that is not an option at the moment. I guess most
people working with R are professionals with the means to work
with relative new hardware. I have to make do with a very old
system, a disk drive that is almost full, so no possibility to
compile a recent version of gcc, or upgrade anything that
demands a C compiler that is not from last century.

I write quite some software myself. Working with an old system
like I have has the advantage that I never hear people complain
that my software doesn't work on their system because there
system is too old.

But I have to accept that my system, for the time it keeps
working, is becoming state-of-the-art-long-gone.

-- 
Peter Kleiweg

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[Rd] maketitle.pl for Perl 4.004
Peter Kleiweg