Change 21456: Perlfaq1 : take notice that 5.8.1 is now released.
[email protected] (Rafael Garcia-Suarez)
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Change 21456 by rgs@rgs-home on 2003/10/15 19:19:05 Perlfaq1 : take notice that 5.8.1 is now released. Affected files ... ... //depot/perl/pod/perlfaq1.pod#47 edit Differences ... ==== //depot/perl/pod/perlfaq1.pod#47 (text) ==== Index: perl/pod/perlfaq1.pod --- perl/pod/perlfaq1.pod#46~20103~ Wed Jul 9 21:28:40 2003 +++ perl/pod/perlfaq1.pod Wed Oct 15 12:19:05 2003 @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ no longer maintained; its last patch (4.036) was in 1992, long ago and far away.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 5.8.0 (although 5.005_03 and 5.6.1 are +recent production release is 5.8.1 (although 5.005_03 and 5.6.1 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 @@ -307,8 +307,8 @@ (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 August 2002 that means running either -5.8.0 (released in July 2002), or one of the older releases like +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), although 5.004_05 isn't that bad if you B<absolutely> need such an old version (released in April 1999) for stability reasons. End of Patch.