On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 09:59:24PM -0500, Robert Hicks wrote: > Something sticks in my memory about 5.8.2 not being a good version and > 5.8.3 being the recommended one.
>From what I can remember 5.8.2 was pretty good. 5.8.3 fixed a few important Unicode bugs, including one involving join. So from that it would seem that if you're using Unicode 5.8.3 would be the one to go with, otherwise 5.8.2 is fine. Only I also know that 5.8.4, 5.8.5, 5.8.6 and 5.8.7 fixed progressively more Unicode bugs, so really the moral is slightly different. I'd prefer it if module authors didn't force users to upgrade their perl to track stable, because in reality corporate users won't have a choice for production. But there is nothing stopping them installing a more recent version for testing to verify whether a newer stable perl would fix the problem they are attempting to report. (Rather than expecting the module's author to do all their hard work for them for nothing) Nicholas Clark
