Re: Oldest supported Perl version
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H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
- Date
- Apr 20, 2009, 22:56 UTC
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On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:39:34 -0500, Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 17:38, Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 16:10, H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> wrote: > >> 5.8.1 is the worst distribution ever. > > > > But then you endorse 5.6.1? > > That is: > > But then you endorse 5.6.1 if 5.8.5 is not chosen.
5.6.1 and 5.6.2 are fine for non-Unicode environments.
When using Unicode (utf-8) and/or 64bit, I'd strongly advise not to go below 5.8.5
-- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.3, 11.0, and 11.1, AIX 5.2 and 5.3. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/