On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 04:51:23PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
It's not very clear, but http://www.cpan.org/src/README.html seems to say that 5.8 is still supported.
perl stable version is 5.12, not even 5.10 (released on December 18, 2007). 5.8 (last maintenance release: December 14, 2008) is "maintained". it doesn't mean "you should use it" but "if you have perl legacy scripts to run on a old system, we carre about it". plus! most of us still use a 5.10 interpreter so we can't provide a any serious waranty to be 5.8 compliant as long as we haven't a test suite with large coverage running on a perlbrewed 5.8. is there a *real* reason to take us away from all new perl features ? regards -- Marc Chantreux BibLibre, expert en logiciels libres pour l'info-doc http://biblibre.com