Re^4: Arguements for upgrading from Perl 5.8


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Re^4: Arguements for upgrading from Perl 5.8

by dlarochelle (Sexton)

on Nov 18, 2011 at 15:03 UTC ( [id://938853]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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The system is actually running 5.8.8 rather than just 5.8.0.

Still Unicode support is important and if versions after 5.8.X have significantly better Unicode support that would itself be a huge reason to upgrade.

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Re^5: Arguements for upgrading from Perl 5.8
by Tux (Canon) on Nov 18, 2011 at 15:11 UTC

Other than just way much better and more efficient and reliable Unicode support in the most recent version, also the supported Unicode standard was followed:

 Perl      Unicode
 release   version
 --------- -------
  v5.8.8     4.1.0
  v5.8.9     5.1.0
  v5.10.0    5.0.0
  v5.10.1    5.1.0
  v5.12.0    5.2.0
  v5.12.1    5.2.0
  v5.12.2    5.2.0
  v5.12.3    5.2.0
  v5.12.4    5.2.0
  v5.14.0    6.0.0
  v5.14.1    6.0.0
[download]

Improvements in 5.14 made it virtually impossible to backport those improvements to 5.12 and older: you cannot take a single (Unicode) module from 5.14's CORE distribution and "upgrade" Unicode to 6.0.0 in 5.12.x

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

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