From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:19:05 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Perlfaq1 : take notice that 5.8.1 is now released. X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=adfbb37ecacd5c66bcea112fc015c3b7d812d60e;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Perlfaq1 : take notice that 5.8.1 is now released. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@21456 --- diff --git a/pod/perlfaq1.pod b/pod/perlfaq1.pod index 0284e76..13f8f42 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq1.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq1.pod @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ You should definitely use version 5. Version 4 is old, limited, and no longer maintained; its last patch (4.036) was in 1992, long ago and far away. Sure, it's stable, but so is anything that's dead; in fact, perl4 had been called a dead, flea-bitten camel carcass. The most -recent production release is 5.8.0 (although 5.005_03 and 5.6.1 are +recent production release is 5.8.1 (although 5.005_03 and 5.6.1 are still supported). The most cutting-edge development release is 5.9. Further references to the Perl language in this document refer to the production release unless otherwise specified. There may be one or @@ -307,8 +307,8 @@ for any given task. Also mention that the difference between version (Well, OK, maybe it's not quite that distinct, but you get the idea.) If you want support and a reasonable guarantee that what you're developing will continue to work in the future, then you have to run -the supported version. As of August 2002 that means running either -5.8.0 (released in July 2002), or one of the older releases like +the supported version. As of October 2003 that means running either +5.8.1 (released in September 2003), or one of the older releases like 5.6.1 (released in April 2001) or 5.005_03 (released in March 1999), although 5.004_05 isn't that bad if you B need such an old version (released in April 1999) for stability reasons.