On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 05:13:48PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote: > 5.10.0 is the latest stable release of perl.
Yes, that's sorta my point ;-) > Debian is notorious for being several releases behind the rest of the > world. Other distributions and operating systems exist. Well, it seems that the world is also behind the world: http://perlsurvey.org/static/PerlSurvey2007A4.pdf Happens a lot lately. > You could always build your own perl 5.10.0 and install it alongside > Debian's version. If you build with all the defaults, it installs in > /usr/local so won't interfere with the system perl. Or if you'd rather > not have it there, Configure with -Dprefix=$HOME/perl-5.10.0 or similar. I know, but I keep things debianish, I even repackage all Perl package before use. > I also have a guest account available on one of my machines, with > several different versions of perl available, so if for some reason you > can't build your own, let me know and I'll let you know the login > details. Thx. I come back to your offer if it is too much hassle to reproduce your environment with a VMware image. \rho
