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in reply to Re: Stop suggesting to upgrade perl
in thread Stop suggesting to upgrade perl

The post was about users. I can't ask them to upgrade. Perl 5.8 supported till Y2017 in RHEL5, Perl 5.10 till Y2020. Perl 5.12 is probably not too new. But Perl 5.18 is not shipped with majority of distros currently.