On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 05:13:48PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote:
> 5.10.0 is the latest stable release of perl.

Yes, that's sorta my point ;-)

> Debian is notorious for being several releases behind the rest of the
> world.  Other distributions and operating systems exist.

Well, it seems that the world is also behind the world:

http://perlsurvey.org/static/PerlSurvey2007A4.pdf

Happens a lot lately.

> You could always build your own perl 5.10.0 and install it alongside
> Debian's version.  If you build with all the defaults, it installs in
> /usr/local so won't interfere with the system perl.  Or if you'd rather
> not have it there, Configure with -Dprefix=$HOME/perl-5.10.0 or similar.

I know, but I keep things debianish, I even repackage all Perl package
before use.

> I also have a guest account available on one of my machines, with
> several different versions of perl available, so if for some reason you
> can't build your own, let me know and I'll let you know the login
> details.

Thx. I come back to your offer if it is too much hassle to reproduce
your environment with a VMware image.

\rho

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