Perl version in -STABLE

[Tim Bunce]

On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:53:13AM -0700, Charlie Root wrote:
> 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.

Also, it has been announced that a future release of the perl DBI
extension will require at least perl 5.6.1.

Tim.