Perl 5.18 RC2 has been released

[Corion]

The first release of version 18 of Perl 5 is getting close. If you plan on migrating to it or have modules on CPAN, now is a good time to test your code against the upcoming version of Perl.

1. See the 5.18-RC2 announcement
2. Download the Release Candidate
3. Build it (but don't install it)
4. Run your test suite with RC2 of Perl

The release of 5.18.0 is expected to be within the next two weeks.

[Anonymous Monk]

Deprecated Utilities The following utilities will be removed from the core distribution in a future release as their associated modules have been deprecated. They will remain available with the applicable CPAN distribution. cpanp

cpanp is removed because its deprecated?

I think this is error, because I can find no such mention of CPANPLUS being deprecated

Not surprising given that no link to documentation stating such is provided

If there exists some deprecation notice, please link it

[Corion]

The following utilities will be removed from the core distribution in a future release...

I think this is the first notice that, maybe in 5.20 or later, CPANPLUS and the associated tools will be removed. 5.18-RC2 certainly includes cpanp, as I've used it to test installation of modules.

I don't know where the deprecation of CPANPLUS comes from, but I think it just hasn't seen much maintenance and carries quite some overhead in term of modules. Of course, CPANPLUS will stay available through the CPAN.

[Anonymous Monk]

I don't know where the deprecation of CPANPLUS comes from, but I think it just hasn't seen much maintenance and carries quite some overhead in term of modules. Of course, CPANPLUS will stay available through the CPAN.

Hmm, I kind of think that info might be important/interesting

Nothing here or todo.pod, and I think I found it:) Taking CPANPLUS out of core - nntp.perl.org , [Round 2] Taking CPANPLUS out of core - nntp.perl.org and https://github.com/phaylon/perltodo/blob/master/CPANPLUS-Deprecation-Tree.mkdn, and How do we know when a CORE module is deprecated? | chris fedde [blogs.perl.org]

It appears somehow they've determined that "CPANPLUS did not replace CPAN.pm as the CPAN client of choice" so out of the core it goes :)

Along with the above, a reading of perlpolicy made it click for me :) I think a link to https://metacpan.org/module/RJBS/perl-5.18.0-RC2/pod/perlpolicy.pod#deprecated , one of

    L<perlpolicy>
    L<perlpolicy/Terminology>
    L<perlpolicy/deprecated>

for the perldelta deprecation section would be useful -- cross reference and all that :)