Comments on: Up-to-date packages and pkgsrc https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2012/01/27/up-to-date-packages-and-pkgsrc/ A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:08:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: ambushbloat https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2012/01/27/up-to-date-packages-and-pkgsrc/comment-page-1/#comment-44481 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:08:28 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=9107#comment-44481 In Red Hat’s defence, RHEL 5 was released in 2007, where the newest Perl was 5.8; RHEL 6 in late 2010 (newest Perl 5.12, but they shipped 5.10). Anyone trying to create a server distro would not lightly upgrade something which so many packages depend on.

(Even then, Fedora, the testing platform for Red Hat usually known for bleeding edge software, has been a tad slow in adopting new Perl versions to my knowledge)

Anyway, the Perl community often recommends installing a (possibly newer) local Perl interpreter and using that for own scripts and development. Things are less likely to break that way.

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