Leon wrote:
> The latest, most-tested-ever, stable version of Perl, version 5.8.0
> was released on 18th July 2002, which is a while ago. We use it at
> work for development and on the new production servers. I don't use it
> on my personal colo box (it has so much stuff running it'd be a pain
> to update).
Yes. Magnus asked me if I wanted to host the advent calendar on dabox as
it (at the time) had more bandwidth. I replied "No, it's running a
prehistoric version of Perl" (5.6.0 - yech!)
> Are you using it? Why?
I'm running 5.8.0 on my laptop, my colobox, and my work desktop because
that's what installed when I typed apt-get. No, scratch that. I'm
running debian unstable mainly because it had 5.8.0 in it (yes, I know
about pin.)
I'm running 5.8.0 on my production boxes at work because I needed some
features or bugfixes. I think there were some annoying memory leaks. Oh,
and I used perlio for something if memory serves. We still have at least
one 5.6.0 box that haven't been upgraded. Normally it's because these
machines run mod_perl so touching 5.6 would break them.
Personally, the main reason I'm running 5.8 is because that's what Pixie
runs on. There are other reasons - it requires less modules to install.
With 5.6.1 whenever I set up a new box I'd have to install twenty or so
"must have" modules. Most of these are bundled with 5.8.0.
Mark.
P.S. 5.6.0? Shall I get you some rocks to bash together too?
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