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From:
Gabor Szabo
Date:
October 30, 2009 13:37
Subject:
Re: perl-5.12
Message ID:
d8a74af10910301337g689ded01r81ca671d0c7b6b43@mail.gmail.com
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
<maddingue@free.fr> wrote:
> Gabor Szabo wrote:
>
>> After rereading my message it might have sounded as if I was criticizing
>> the development of 5.12. I was not at all. I am just trying to figure out
>> how to convince companies to upgrade perl and the message of
>> Merijn was a good opportunity to make some noise.
>
> Most companies upgrade Perl as often as awk: with the operating system.
>
> During the next two years, a growing part of the platform I work with
> (~3k servers) will switch from Perl 5.8.x to Perl 5.10.x. Not because
> we'll upgrade Perl, but because we'll switch from Debian to Ubuntu.
Hmm, that might be true for operating systems where perl is bundled
but not for others such as Windows.
Gabor
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