cvs commit: perlfaq perlfaq1.pod

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  Log:
  From: Iain Truskett <[email protected]>
  To: [email protected]
  Subject: [PATCH perlfaq1] Versions
  Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 01:53:10 +1100
  
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  Assorted updates for 5.8.2 and 5.6.2, and a URL for Ponie.
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.14      +9 -5      perlfaq/perlfaq1.pod
  
  Index: perlfaq1.pod
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  RCS file: /cvs/public/perlfaq/perlfaq1.pod,v
  retrieving revision 1.13
  retrieving revision 1.14
  diff -u -w -r1.13 -r1.14
  --- perlfaq1.pod	16 Oct 2003 04:52:52 -0000	1.13
  +++ perlfaq1.pod	23 Nov 2003 08:02:29 -0000	1.14
  @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
   =head1 NAME
   
  -perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.13 $, $Date: 2003/10/16 04:52:52 $)
  +perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.14 $, $Date: 2003/11/23 08:02:29 $)
   
   =head1 DESCRIPTION
   
  @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
   no longer maintained; its last patch (4.036) was in 1992, long ago and
   far away.  Sure, it's stable, but so is anything that's dead; in fact,
   perl4 had been called a dead, flea-bitten camel carcass.  The most
  -recent production release is 5.8.1 (although 5.005_03 and 5.6.1 are
  +recent production release is 5.8.2 (although 5.005_03 and 5.6.2 are
   still supported). The most cutting-edge development release is 5.9.
   Further references to the Perl language in this document refer to the
   production release unless otherwise specified.  There may be one or
  @@ -102,6 +102,8 @@
   differences between perl5 and ponie.  Ponie is not a complete rewrite
   of perl5.
   
  +For more details, see http://www.poniecode.org/
  +
   =head2 What is perl6?
   
   At The Second O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention, Larry Wall
  @@ -307,9 +309,11 @@
   (Well, OK, maybe it's not quite that distinct, but you get the idea.)
   If you want support and a reasonable guarantee that what you're
   developing will continue to work in the future, then you have to run
  -the supported version.  As of October 2003 that means running either
  -5.8.1 (released in September 2003), or one of the older releases like
  -5.6.1 (released in April 2001) or 5.005_03 (released in March 1999),
  +the supported version.  As of December 2003 that means running either
  +5.8.2 (released in November 2003), or one of the older releases like
  +5.6.2 (also released in November 2003; a maintenance release to let perl
  +5.6 compile on newer systems as 5.6.1 was released in April 2001) or
  +5.005_03 (released in March 1999),
   although 5.004_05 isn't that bad if you B<absolutely> need such an old
   version (released in April 1999) for stability  reasons.
   Anything older than 5.004_05 shouldn't be used.