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From:
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Date:
December 6, 2017 21:53
Subject:
Re: RFC: Adding a perldisthist POD page
Message ID:
CACBZZX6wafqCKnma2-=mSjBVBKMKc67sSDidNhNQzLCvX5MM7Q@mail.gmail.com
On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 10:39 PM, H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Dec 2017 21:47:30 +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
> <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I just pushed a WIP perldisthist POD page. It's like perlhist except
>> it documents what OS / distro release carried a given version of perl:
>>
>> https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/f39ded76638c46278fc5caab723b1e9e30bbbbef
>>
>> It's currently quite sparse, just lists RHEL [567], which is already
>> all I wanted out of it.
>>
>> I find myself looking this up more often than I'd like, and usually
>> end up on some random stackoverflow thread, it would be great if this
>> were part of the core perl docs.
>
> http://www.cpan.org/ports/binaries.html
>
> did you know about that one?

I did not! That's definitely a lot of useful information I can
incorporate, or maybe I should just give up and we should point to
that.

I do have a bit of a preference to having this a perldoc command away though...

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