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From:
Martijn Lievaart
Date:
June 20, 2022 18:07
Subject:
Re: disabling smartmatch and when()?
Message ID:
35caff8b-e6a7-31da-53d4-c9773db9c6aa@rtij.nl
Op 20-06-2022 om 18:58 schreef Dave Mitchell:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 05:54:52PM +0200, Tomasz Konojacki wrote:
>> RHEL6: released in 2010, supported until 2020: perl 5.10 (no warnings)
>> RHEL7: released in 2014, supported until 2024: perl 5.16 (no warnings)
>> RHEL8: released in 2019, supported until 2029: perl 5.26 (warns)
> RHEL is hardly a relevant comparison. It is an extremely conservative
> linux server distribution whose software is usually years out of date.
> Virtually no one will have *developed* (as opposed to *deployed*) perl
> code on RHEL.

I work for a very large high tech manufacturing firm. Yup, we develop 
with Perl on RHEL7. We are probably not the only ones. People use RHEL 
*because* it is a conservative Linux distribution.


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