Perl versions available

[johannes.kingma]

Hi!

Is there a list of version numbers that are available on the various linux distributions? perl is at version 5.18 but there are (apart from Arch) none that have included 5.18 in their downstream.

What can I expect?

 

[Marius Gavrilescu]

Is there a list of version numbers that are available on the various linux distributions? perl is at version 5.18 but there are (apart from Arch) none that have included 5.18 in their downstream.

What can I expect?

I don't know about other distributions, but over here (Debian), we have 5.14
(and we will have 5.18 in unstable soon).

I see Slackware has 5.18 ( according to http://packages.slackware.com ) and
Fedora has 5.16.3 in F18/F19 and 5.18.1 in F20.

I think all linux distros have at least 5.14 now.

 

[johannes.kingma]

I don't know about other distributions, but over here (Debian), we have 5..14

(and we will have 5.18 in unstable soon).



I see Slackware has 5.18 ( according to http://packages.slackware.com ) and

Fedora has 5.16.3 in F18/F19 and 5.18.1 in F20.



I think all linux distros have at least 5.14 now.

--

Marius Gavrilescu

(poems) With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,/ it is still a beautiful world./ Be cheerful./ Strive to be happy. -- Max Ehrmann "Desiderata"

That is great news. One of the larger development projects with Perl that Iknow LogitechMediaServer has be struggling with compatibility issues. It seems that 5.18 breaks quit a few things that seem to have worked fine in the 5.8 version the LMS team is in.

 

[Peter J. Holzer]

I don't know about other distributions, but over here (Debian), we
have 5.14 (and we will have 5.18 in unstable soon).

I see Slackware has 5.18 ( according to http://packages.slackware.com
) and Fedora has 5.16.3 in F18/F19 and 5.18.1 in F20.

I think all linux distros have at least 5.14 now.

Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 has still 5.10.1, and I guess its derivatives
(CentOS, Scientific Linux, Oracle Linux, ...) are at the same version.
No word yet on when RHEL 7 will be out.

hp

 

[Markus Steinborn]

Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 has still 5.10.1, and I guess its derivatives
(CentOS, Scientific Linux, Oracle Linux, ...) are at the same version.
No word yet on when RHEL 7 will be out.

Right - anad the still supported RHEL 5 (Support till March 31st, 2017)
has only perl 5.8.8.

BTW: IIRC RHEL 7 is supposed to be based on Fedora 17 and 18, so we have
an estimate at least.


Greetings

Markus Steinborn

 

[Markus Steinborn]

BTW: IIRC RHEL 7 is supposed to be based on Fedora 17 and 18, so we have
an estimate at least.

I've got to correct myself: Wikipedia tells us that "Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7 will be based on Fedora 19", so quite probable RHEL 7 will have
perl 5.16.