On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:13:51AM +0100, Rob Dixon wrote: > I wonder what you urgently need that isn't in 5.8.8? Yes, 5.10/5.12 has > a few nice things in it, but nothing life-changing.
I suppose the biggest things aren't really language features as such. 5.14.0 will very shortly be released. That will also mark the end of official developer support for 5.10.x, let alone 5.8.x. This is probably most important should any security problems be found. Supported versions of perl are likely to receive official fixes in short order. With unsupported versions this is unlikely. Another consideration will be that CPAN authors will start dropping support for older versions. Naturally you can still use older versions of modules but again, these will probably be unsupported. I think that hardly anyone gratuitously drops support for older versions, but there are some nice features and bug fixes in modern versions, and CPAN authors are going to want to make use of them, even if you (the developer using those modules) don't. -- Paul Johnson - [email protected] http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] http://learn.perl.org/
