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The world is what it is. I just live in it. We, realistically, cannot insist on a new Perl on every system we support (we're talking about a million or two inst
by SwellJoe 9y ago
The world is what it is. I just live in it. We, realistically, cannot insist on a new Perl on every system we support (we're talking about a million or two installations). We build tools that are meant to be very easy to install, require minimal CPAN dependencies, etc.
We target 5.10.1. When CentOS 6 is EOL, we will target 5.16, and so on. I don't like it, but I can't make Red Hat ship newer Perl versions. Software Collections has Perl 5.20, which is great for some folks, but it's not a good option for our projects, either.
It's worth noting that Python has the same problem on RHEL/CentOS. Maybe even more pronounced, because some system tools rely on Python, and it can even break them if you change your personal Python to something else (I use pyenv, and I have to remember to change my Python back to the system one when running Gnome Tweak Tool, and the like).