On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:20:30 -0700, "Jan Dubois" <jand@activestate.com> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Jesse Vincent wrote: > >>> Site configuration information for perl v5.6.2: > >> > >> 5.6. came out over 8 years ago. > >> > >> a: What's our policy on attempting to support it? > >> b: What's the diplomatic answer to the bug report as a result of > >> that? > > > > Would any list member who is still using Perl 5.6 in production please > > speak up? > > I don't have updated numbers, but for the period of January-May 2007 > there have been an average of 1000 Perl 5.6 and 4500 Perl 5.8 downloads > per day of the Windows binaries from the ActiveState download servers. > The relative percentage was the same for Linux and Solaris, but with > lower absolute numbers. > > I only got those numbers because the Komodo group was doing some > download stat analysis, so it isn't trivial for me to get more up-to- > date numbers (and they may not be representative for people trying > to compile Perl themselves anyways). For my HP-UX ports, for all versions (I don't have 5.6 ports there): 5.005 5.8.6 5.8.0 5.8.3 5.8.8 5.8.2 5.8.1 5.8.7 5.8.4 5.8.5 5.10.0 Jan 2003 - - 71 - - - - - - - - Feb 2003 - - 80 - - - - - - - - Mar 2003 - - 174 - - - - - - - - Apr 2003 - - 249 - - - - - - - - May 2003 - - 273 - - - - - - - - Jun 2003 - - 263 - - - - - - - - Jul 2003 - - 229 - - - - - - - - Aug 2003 - - 400 - - - - - - - - Sep 2003 - - 408 - - - 27 - - - - Oct 2003 - - 78 - - - 273 - - - - Nov 2003 - - 63 - - 62 217 - - - - Dec 2003 - - 30 - - 122 27 - - - - Jan 2004 - - 85 81 - 39 28 - - - - Feb 2004 - - 122 237 - 106 220 - - - - Mar 2004 - - 60 304 - 131 156 - - - - Apr 2004 - - 81 256 - 105 100 - 60 - - May 2004 - - - 50 - 13 15 - 89 - - Jun 2004 - - 13 26 - 18 19 - 32 - - Jul 2004 - - 18 30 - 11 22 - 45 - - Aug 2004 - - - 4 - 3 3 - 4 - - Oct 2004 - - - - - - - - - 12 - Jan 2005 - 11 - - - - - - - - - Mar 2005 - 20 - - - - - - - - - Apr 2005 - 18 - - - - - - - - - May 2005 - 11 - - - - - - - - - Jun 2005 - - - - - - - 42 - - - Jul 2005 1 15 32 29 - 7 21 27 6 8 - Aug 2005 2 94 66 54 - 26 69 80 24 37 - Sep 2005 4 50 59 31 - 24 58 81 41 37 - Oct 2005 3 81 66 48 - 31 75 69 100 73 - Nov 2005 4 95 90 48 - 37 89 134 49 44 - Dec 2005 12 133 66 71 - 75 120 93 60 60 - Jan 2006 11 82 94 55 - 48 115 84 50 58 - Feb 2006 5 110 87 55 81 49 119 83 49 48 - Mar 2006 10 135 193 52 162 50 161 57 49 56 - Apr 2006 2 37 182 24 208 35 84 31 17 26 - May 2006 7 83 141 50 97 59 109 44 54 42 - Jun 2006 14 100 134 47 87 70 120 66 78 41 - Jul 2006 18 126 90 86 107 108 187 79 93 89 - Aug 2006 9 96 122 57 106 90 135 61 57 61 - Sep 2006 6 54 152 29 56 69 167 56 32 63 - Oct 2006 5 86 161 26 41 44 68 27 18 38 - Nov 2006 6 71 56 55 63 70 69 57 33 33 - Dec 2006 4 64 84 41 122 63 113 41 40 46 - Jan 2007 3 52 63 21 527 63 44 43 19 27 - Feb 2007 3 64 281 18 110 41 42 30 18 21 - Mar 2007 7 108 264 63 181 82 119 54 53 60 - Apr 2007 2 71 111 29 262 46 35 29 18 20 - May 2007 6 42 289 114 109 169 156 29 28 22 - Jun 2007 2 99 35 23 117 30 154 134 10 12 - Jul 2007 2 42 49 126 252 257 182 28 119 147 - Aug 2007 4 25 117 128 113 37 110 154 10 10 - Sep 2007 9 156 89 63 160 132 107 77 148 20 - Oct 2007 4 84 24 33 90 21 32 17 50 31 - Nov 2007 5 18 19 11 56 52 21 12 10 8 - Dec 2007 2 24 30 14 206 34 25 111 12 17 - Jan 2008 3 40 62 24 115 85 52 29 35 52 3 Feb 2008 5 123 46 35 79 88 56 64 31 32 80 Mar 2008 25 195 139 248 287 224 496 199 262 285 170 Apr 2008 10 65 58 142 228 52 113 49 79 36 28 -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, & 11.23, SuSE 10.1 & 10.2, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/Thread Previous | Thread Next