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Postings from April 2010
In the past there have been various discussions about getting a modern perl onto CentOS 5. We have made 5.10 rpms based on the Fedora 12 rpms, and planned on making them public, so that a bunch of us don't have to re-do this work. Safety in numbers, I always say. With the perl5 new versioning scheme, it sounds like 5.10 is already behind on bugfixes, but that 5.12 will get bugfixes for quite a while. And, alas, RHEL 6 is going to ship perl 5.10. Presumably this means Red Hat plans on backporting fixes. Or something. They don't exactly have a great track record fixing bugs in what they ship. But, it will be fairly easy to track whatever bugfixes they do backport. My quandry is whether I should retarget to 5.12. The only reason not to is that 5.12 hasn't been packaged by a mainstream distro, yet, and thus might have not had enough testing. What do you guys think? -- gregThread Next