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in reply to Arguements for upgrading from Perl 5.8

Ubuntu 8.4 is no longer supported, either. I'd recommend upgrading to 10.04 LTS, which has Perl 5.10. Do this on a spare machine and see what, if anything, breaks.

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Re^2: Arguements for upgrading from Perl 5.8
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Nov 17, 2011 at 23:09 UTC

    8.04 has server-class support until 2013.

    Even so, 5.10 is at its end of life too, so that's just delaying the inevitable.


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      that's just delaying the inevitable

      But still, it's better than doing nothing. The next step would be to update the staging machine to the next LTS version, that hopefully has a newer perl. As a nice side effect, dlarochelle gets a chance to plan for continuous updates, and to test that plan.

      Alexander

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