[email protected] (Toby Wintermute) writes: > 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.
The problem with this is that 'new perls' means 'not backwards-compatible language changes' which is a problem for people with existing code written to work with 'old perls'.
