I can see why that was posted anonymous.
Operating with older versions of Perl isn't about disk space, it's about allowing a complex already-configured system to run an application without performing an operation (such as upgrade) that could render the rest of the system useless and unstable.
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It depends on your definition of "older" :) Clearly I won't consider 5.8.8 "old", it is still the standard perl in Mac OS X 10.5 and certainly some other shipping OSes like RedHat EL, and many OSes that shipped earlier this year or last year. General compatibility with the 5.8 line would probably be easy enough to achieve, but of course older than that hardly makes any sense.
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