On 12/2/2014 5:50 PM, Noel Butler wrote:
On 02/12/2014 23:10, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
5.10 is only what, six years old? Surely anyone running anything
older have far greater issues :)
(says the guy running a few slackware 13.1 boxes with 5.10.1 hehe
but theyll join the 14 series this Christmas when I can take them
offline to upgrade em, even -current is useing a 12 month old 5.18.1)
There is a fairly consistent streak in some distros to backport
patches to older versions rather than move the version forward. 5.8.8
is in pretty far spread use from my knowledge.
Likely in antique versions of debian and Redhat (which again will have
bigger issues), there surely must come a time when the line is drawn
and say - you're unsupported from this_date, give them plenty of
notice, I think 12 months notice is plenty of time for planned
upgrades or devise workarounds, SA is not updated all that often, so a
next major release would be about 12 months away, short of a serious
exploit found anyway, so there's plenty of time for lazy admins to do
what they actually get paid to do :)
Well, I also can't justify requiring a newer version of Perl just for
one regexp.
Regards,
KAM
