On Jul 7, 2010, at 12:57 PM, Joe Landman wrote: > Darren Duncan wrote: >> Joe Landman wrote: >>> We are redoing one of our applications, and I wanted a quick sync against >>> which Perl versions are currently "blessed". I remember that 5.10.0 did >>> not work due to a bug in the Perl base. Are there any issues we need to be >>> aware of for 5.12.0 or should we stick with 5.10.x (x greater than or equal >>> to 1)? >> My recommendation is to ignore the 5.10.x series, and go straight to 5.12.1+ >> if you want the newest production version, or use 5.8.x if you want to >> support older Perls. The 5.12.x and 5.10.x were released close enough >> together, and the 5.12.x benefit from the new and improved development >> process of making a release every month regardless of how much was changed. >> Also, 5.12.x improves some of the features that 5.10.x added, such as making >> smart matching and Unicode work better. Speaking for myself, I'm using >> 5.12.1 in production and for my work applications, and I'm using 5.8.1+ for >> my CPAN modules. -- Darren Duncan > > Thanks. I seem to remember trying 5.12.0 and having some problems with > various builds of Cat dependencies. > > I'll try 5.12.1 tonight and see how this goes. > > Thanks! > > Joe
I highly recommend using Perlbrew, it makes things so much easier and you can test between different versions of Perl with no fuss. http://search.cpan.org/~gugod/App-perlbrew-0.07/bin/perlbrew -J _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
