Perl version in -STABLE

[Charlie Root]

On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 03:10:09PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> I would therefore like to suggest that the version of Perl in the
> -STABLE tree be upgraded to 5.6.1, which is old enough to be known-
> good (and not deviate too much from 5.005_03) and yet new enough to
> incoroporate some of the more useful improvements to have appeared
> since 1999.  If memory serves, it also takes significantly less time
> to build than 5.8.0.

  I would also like to see this happen.  I think the 5.6.1 upgrade
should have already happened in -STABLE, but it's better late than
never.

	- Murray