List of all the versions of Perl?

Cody Pendant has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Is there somewhere I could find a list of all the official Perl releases? I don't know how it works with Perl 5.8.8 for Windows, Perl 5.8.8 for Mac and so on, but is there a list/timeline for all the major releases somewhere, in which 5.8.8 and all other releases would be recorded?

Nobody says perl looks like line-noise any more
kids today don't know what line-noise IS ...

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Re: List of all the versions of Perl? by moritz (Cardinal) on Nov 21, 2008 at 13:55 UTC
perlhist contains a list of all Perl 5 releases, including dates. Differences between versions are documented in perl588delta, perl587delta etc. Note that from the point of view of the perl 5 porters, only the source releases are official, while all other things (like ActiveState perl, the perl that ships with Debian etc.) are packaged up by third parties, and are not offical (though some of them are officially broken :-)	[reply]
Re: List of all the versions of Perl? by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Nov 21, 2008 at 14:16 UTC
Cody Pendant, perlhist perhaps? Update: Wow, moritz already said this. Not sure how that happened so let me add Perl Timeline and Perl Timeline beyond 2002 so I feel like I am contributing ;-) Cheers - L~R	[reply]
Re: List of all the versions of Perl? by duelafn (Parson) on Nov 21, 2008 at 17:55 UTC
Somewhat related, and very useful, is Module::CoreList which will also tell you which modules shipped in each perl version. Good Day, Dean	[reply]
Re: List of all the versions of Perl? by Anonymous Monk on Nov 21, 2008 at 17:31 UTC
http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl/	[reply]
Re: List of all the versions of Perl? by Cody Pendant (Prior) on Nov 21, 2008 at 21:47 UTC
Thanks everyone. Nobody says perl looks like line-noise any more kids today don't know what line-noise IS ...	[reply]

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