[PATCH perlfaq1] Versions
[email protected] (Iain Truskett)
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Assorted updates for 5.8.2 and 5.6.2, and a URL for Ponie. I'm not entirely happy with the phrasing for the parenthesized clause after 5.6.2. cheers, -- Iain.
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Index: perlfaq1.pod =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/public/perlfaq/perlfaq1.pod,v retrieving revision 1.13 diff -u -r1.13 perlfaq1.pod --- perlfaq1.pod 16 Oct 2003 04:52:52 -0000 1.13 +++ perlfaq1.pod 22 Nov 2003 14:51:38 -0000 @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ no longer maintained; its last patch (4.036) was in 1992, long ago and far away.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.