Re: Does 5.8.0 suck?

[Tardis]

in reply to Does 5.8.0 suck?

Wow!

weasel:~ > perl -v

This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for i386-freebsd

This is partly because of FreeBSD - until the upcoming 5.0 release they have stuck to this version of perl.

On the other hand, I'm only just now starting to run into stuff which requires a newer version. Certainly the lack of 5.6 or better hasn't hurt any of my production stuff.

I'm constantly amused about people agonizing about whether to upgrade fom 5.6 to 5.8 :-)

[mbadolato]

Incidently, you can change that version of Perl on FreeBSD by doing

# cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8.0/
# make
# make test
# make install
# use.perl ports

That last command will set symlinks and whatnot, so that the new version is used by the system, with whatever ports are being compiled etc, and the source won't get overwritten on the next make world

[belg4mit]

Unicode and You seems relevant, it's my recent dealings with 5.8. Outside of that arena I've not noticed a difference.

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