On 2 October 2013 01:10, Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]> wrote: >> Perl will probably need to be 5.8.4 (or at least 5.8.1) for sane unicode. >> >> Those versions are targeted by the tool-chain per The Lancaster Consensus: >> https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/toolchain-site/blob/master/lancaster-consensus.md > > Thanks for that link. Forgot about those. Tom Christiansen recommends at least > 5.12. That may be too far however. Anyone know of a page that lists the > current > installed Perl on the major distros?
>From what I've seen of people stuck on very-long-term-support distros, they don't get to choose to compile new Perl modules. So they're stuck on whatever version of DBD-Pg is shipped with their distro. Or if they can compile new modules, then they can also compile new Perls. Just from what I've seen; your mileage may vary, etc.
