Change 21456 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2003/10/15 19:19:05
Perlfaq1 : take notice that 5.8.1 is now released.
Affected files ...
... //depot/perl/pod/perlfaq1.pod#47 edit
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==== //depot/perl/pod/perlfaq1.pod#47 (text) ====
Index: perl/pod/perlfaq1.pod
--- perl/pod/perlfaq1.pod#46~20103~ Wed Jul 9 21:28:40 2003
+++ perl/pod/perlfaq1.pod Wed Oct 15 12:19:05 2003
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
no longer maintained; its last patch (4.036) was in 1992, long ago and
far away. Sure, it's stable, but so is anything that's dead; in fact,
perl4 had been called a dead, flea-bitten camel carcass. The most
-recent production release is 5.8.0 (although 5.005_03 and 5.6.1 are
+recent production release is 5.8.1 (although 5.005_03 and 5.6.1 are
still supported). The most cutting-edge development release is 5.9.
Further references to the Perl language in this document refer to the
production release unless otherwise specified. There may be one or
@@ -307,8 +307,8 @@
(Well, OK, maybe it's not quite that distinct, but you get the idea.)
If you want support and a reasonable guarantee that what you're
developing will continue to work in the future, then you have to run
-the supported version. As of August 2002 that means running either
-5.8.0 (released in July 2002), or one of the older releases like
+the supported version. As of October 2003 that means running either
+5.8.1 (released in September 2003), or one of the older releases like
5.6.1 (released in April 2001) or 5.005_03 (released in March 1999),
although 5.004_05 isn't that bad if you B<absolutely> need such an old
version (released in April 1999) for stability reasons.
End of Patch.
