On 17 Jan 2018, at 12:06 (-0500), Jan Stary wrote:
Perl 5.22 is last July. Is that considered "seriously outdated" in Perl land?
Perl 5.22 went "end of life" with the release of 5.26.0 last May. The 5.22.4 release last July was a final (probably) rollup of security fixes. Unless there's some major security issue in the next few months (before 5.28 is released) there will never be a 5.22.5.
However, that doesn't really make 5.22 seriously outdated in "Perl land" because most apps and non-core modules drop backwards compatibility very slowly and even many core modules are maintained independently such that updated versions can be installed on "end of life" Perl versions. This is intrinsically difficult to fit into a package management system using an orthodox conceptual model of versions and dependencies.
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