Perl 5.0.6 for HPUX 11.11

[rccmum]

Does anyone know Perl 5.0.6 is supported on HPUX 11.11 ?

If yes, where I can get/download this perl version ?


Thanks in advance

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Why in the Wide World of Sports would you want a version that old? Look on your Applications CD's and you should at least be able to find 5.6.x and should have no problem finding 5.8.x from any number of online sources.

I would have a coniption fit if any developer/vendor asked me ti install a Perl version that old.

[rccmum]

Exactly Clay, I do agree with you.
In fact, I did confronted with Application team about it. However there are not sure if 5.8.x is good for them.

Anyway I am giving them 5.8.2 knowing it should do the same for them as 5.6.0 used to do.

I thought I would ask the forum if anyone know about its support nd a copy of this version in case something weired comes up from the application.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Whoa, there is a huge difference between 5.0.6 and 5.6.0. I know that some of the application CD's had 5.6.1 on them and that should certainly be close enough but I would expect anything that would execute under 5.6.x would also work without change under 5.8.x.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

I would most certainly use a 5.8.x version for the features 5.8 brings. The current (stable, production) realease, 5.8.8 has been available for over a year:

http://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/2006/perl-5.8.8.html

I suggest that your application folks rethink their bias.

Regards!

...JRF...

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again):

By the way, I just happened onto this poll (and its an old poll dating to October 2005!). Pass *it* on to your application team!

http://use.perl.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=19&aid=-1

Regards!

...JRF...

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Just for the record, and for people reading this thread later

perl-5.0.6 never existed.\\I'm sure it's a typo, and the author really meant 5.6.0, but still.

5.6.0 should not be used. If your applications depend on 5.6.x, be sure to get a 5.6.2

If you are using threaded perl (you shouldn't) and depend on it, or you use 64bit perl (depends on (if) what database you have to connect to), consider making the jump to 5.8.8 and take the porting annoyences (if any) as a small learning curve. Same for Unicode (UTF-8). Perl has gone a long way since 5.6.0 and 5.8.0.

For the history timeline:

5.6.0: 22 Mar 2000
5.6.1: 08 Apr 2001
5.8.0: 18 Jul 2002
5.6.2: 15 Nov 2003
5.8.1: 25 Sep 2003
5.8.2: 05 Nov 2003
5.8.3: 14 Jan 2004
5.8.4: 21 Apr 2004
5.8.5: 19 Jul 2004
5.8.6: 27 Nov 2004
5.8.7: 30 May 2005
5.8.8: 31 Jan 2006
5.8.9: 3rd qaurter 2007
5.10.0: real soon now

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

[rccmum]

Yes Merijin , it was typo. Thanks for the detailed information.

James, thanks for the valuable poll link which I passed on to the application team.

The App team is now agreed to a try and test their application in the Test Environment with Perl 5.8.8 directly.

Thank you all for your valuable time to reply in here and the suggestions/info offered.

[rccmum]

Perl 5.8.8 would be used instead.