Hi, Solaris 10 comes with Perl 5.8.4. We installed 5.8.8 few years ago (when it was a modern one). It seems that almost no one cares here which Perl version is installed, as long as old code doesn't break.
Yossi -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gabor Szabo Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 11:55 AM To: Perl in Israel Subject: Re: [Israel.pm] perl 5.14 was released and 5.10.x declared end-of-life. On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Gabor Szabo <[email protected]> wrote: > As mentioned previously, perl 5.14 was released a few days ago. > With that the Perl 5 porters also declared the end-of-life for the 5.10.x > line. > They won't support it any more. > > http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/05/perl-514.html > > What does this mean to you and to the company you work for? > Are there any plans to move to a newer version of perl? > Do you do anything regarding such transitions? > > Gabor > Wow, no one has anything to say? To add some more to the original note: Today most of the Linux distributions still come with 5.10 and some of those will reach their own end-of-life only 7 years from now: http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2011/05/2018-is-the-year-of-perl-510.html There are even Linux distributions that come with 5.8.x that will reach end-of-life only in a few years from now. e.g. both Ubuntu 8.04 and RHEL5 come with perl 5.8.8. https://www.socialtext.net/perl5/versions So in a way you are "safe" sticking to the old version of perl but will the vendors (RedHat, Ubuntu etc.) be able to fix some critical issue in perl 5.10 if it comes up 5 years from now? How is this different from other parts of your operating system and from the environment you work in? Gabor _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl This e-mail message is intended for the recipient only and contains information which is CONFIDENTIAL and which may be proprietary to ECI Telecom. If you have received this transmission in error, please inform us by e-mail, phone or fax, and then delete the original and all copies thereof. _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
