Hi,
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 09:18:50AM -0400, Shawn H Corey wrote:
> I've upgraded by Ubuntu to 11.04. What a piece of junk. If this is the
> best Canonical can do, it's time to switch distro.
>
> I'm looking for one that can do some development work. My favourite
> language is Perl, so it's got to be able to do that. Now, you're
> thinking all the distros come with Perl, so it's a minor point but I
> need to run the latest and greatest. Most distros come with Perl 5.10
> (some still have 5.8) but I need to run 5.12 (stable) and 5.14 (beta).
>
> Any recommendations?
>
If you want perl to be _that_ new, there won't be many distros that can satisfy
you. Distros that build from source have a decent chance of using the
developer tree, so Gentoo/funtoo maybe. However that's a considerable time
investment to install a whole system from source.
How about using whatever distro you like and installing perl from source?
$ clone git://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git perl
$ cd perl
$ git tag | tail
v5.13.2
v5.13.3
v5.13.4
v5.13.5
v5.13.6
v5.13.7
v5.13.8
v5.13.9
v5.14.0-RC1
v5.14.0-RC2
$ git checkout v5.13.9 (or 5.14.0-RC2 if you are feeling brave.)
You'd be able to follow the development tree however close you want.
In fact:
$ git log
commit 19bfff0f437aaac271c0658c51d56954ab685688
Author: Jesse Vincent <[email protected]>
Date: Mon May 9 11:31:27 2011 -0400
Remove the "RC2" marker in preparation for Wednesday's final
release.
You can even go back to an old version. http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/tags
Perl 1.0 anyone?
I like how the "The master branch, where the development takes places, is named
blead."
>
> --
> Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth,
> Shawn
>
> Confusion is the first step of understanding.
>
> Programming is as much about organization and communication
> as it is about coding.
>
> The secret to great software: Fail early & often.
>
> Eliminate software piracy: use only FLOSS.
Cheers!
-Phil
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