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Re: How to get older version of cygwin (need to install perl 5.8 - not 5.10)
- From: Rance Hall <ranceh at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:08:45 -0500
- Subject: Re: How to get older version of cygwin (need to install perl 5.8 - not 5.10)
- References: <27947501.post@talk.nabble.com>
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:55 AM, jvsrvcs <jvsrvcs@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I inherited some code at work that is dependent on a number of .pm that will
> only run with perl 5.8. ?I can not upgrade the pm's so must use perl 5.8.
>
> I have cygwin installed but it will only let me install perl 5.10.1. ?I want
> to roll back to perl 5.8. ?I tried ActiveState perl but it will not
> recognize unix like paths and all the scripts would need to be changed.
>
> If anyone out there has a built version / binary of perl 5.8 that will run
> under cygwin, please zip up and forward (.exe and all dll's) that I would
> need.
You could try the cygwin.com site looking for setup-legacy.exe
this is the old cygwin 1.5 setup still active but unsupported. It may
contain the perl version you want.
No promised, I don't have 1.5 installed anymore, and dont have the
time to look in the archive for you, but thats where I'd start.
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