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Perl 5.14.2 is now available
- peteretep 15y agoLong live Perl! Let's hope we managed the porting of CPAN to Perl 6 sensibly.
- irahul 15y agoI don't understand your comment about Perl 6. Where does Perl 6 come into picture while talking about Perl 5?
- thomas11 15y agoI like and use Perl and love seeing Perl news on HN, but do we really need the announcements of minor maintenance releases? Since people are voting it up, there is obviously some interest in it, but I don't get it. Plus, there's not even a changelog at the above link.
- deepakg 15y agoFrom the link above: You can find a full list of changes in the file "perldelta.pod" located in the "pod" directory inside the release and on the web at: https://metacpan.org/module/FLORA/perl-5.14.2/pod/perldelta.pod https://metacpan.org/module/FLORA/perl-5.14.2/pod/perldelta....
- thomas11 15y agoThanks for the correction, I missed the "on the web" part.
- pyre 15y agoSometimes I think that whether or not something gets updated is a function of what else there is to upvote at the time. People hop onto HN and upvote the things that are interesting. If a Perl release is the only interesting thing, then so be it. You could borrow a meme from slashdot.org and call it a 'slow news day.' (I realize that the phrase is older than slashdot)
- VMG 15y agoit may just be an exucse to talk about Perl once in a while.
- kokey 15y agoYup, I think it's that, it's nice for perl users to find each other. Every second job I do seems to involve writing a lot of perl code. The release notes reminds me how much I still don't know about perl.
- berntb 15y agoIt makes me mostly sad; I can't use features after 5.8. Moo(se) et al is what I do after $work. :-(
- mst 15y agoPretty much all of the CPAN stuff I care about - Moose, Catalyst, DBIx::Class etc. supports as far back as 5.8.5 still - specifically for the people stuck with old RHEL systems and similar. While it's disappointing that you don't get to use a newer perl at work, you should still be able to play with most of the shiny modules. There's plenty of CPAN authors still happy to do the legwork to make that so, because we don't want to exclude a bunch of people just because their perl5 VM sucks.
- initself 15y agoWork to change your company's culture!
- merlincorey 15y agoI would have been excited to see Perl6!
- draegtun 15y agoThe last release of Rakudo (Perl6 on Parrot) was in July: http://rakudo.org/2011/07/29/rakudo-star-2011-07-released/ http://rakudo.org/2011/07/29/rakudo-star-2011-07-released/ The next release is due soon and this includes some heavy refactoring so will be a lot quicker: http://rakudo.org/2011/08/19/rakudo-2011-08-release-status/ http://rakudo.org/2011/08/19/rakudo-2011-08-release-status/ & http://rakudo.org/2011/09/09/nom-branch-default/ http://rakudo.org/2011/09/09/nom-branch-default/
- initself 15y agoPerl 6 is an entirely different language than Perl 5.14 with an entirely different development path. I don't see Perl 6 as "the next version of Perl". Perl 5 continues to thrive and will for some time.
- danssig 15y agoWhat is this doing here? Flagged.
- parasctr 15y agoLike all the other release about nodejs, clojure, python, ruby etc. etc. that are submitted to hacker news.
- hartror 15y agoPerl has been completely replaced by Python for me. Perl was the second language I learned in around 1995 after learning Turbo Pascal in my pre-teens. Perl allowed me to learn the programming arts freely, the programs I wrote weren't pretty back then but they ran and performed a function. It let me experiment with CGI, GUIs and writing video games. Thanks Perl. Pity you were so ugly and we had to break up but Python is "cleaner"[1] and I just couldn't stick with you. [1] Personal preference I am not looking for a fight :)
- irahul 15y ago> Pity you were so ugly > [1] Personal preference I am not looking for a fight :) Your wordings don't align with the disclaimer. That's like saying "you are an idiot, but hey, it's a personal perspective - I am not looking for a fight". FWIW, I have used perl heavily, and now a days mostly do Python and Ruby. My reasons for Python/Ruby are basically Nltk/Flask/Gevent, Rails etc and don't have much to do with the languages themselves. They are pretty interchangeable with some syntax difference.
- hartror 15y agoMy words do. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I prefer many things about Python over Perl not just the syntax. I wasn't claiming that I think others are stupid for liking or using it, just my personal preference of what I like in a language. Perhaps I could have worded it a little less flame bait like: Pity I didn't like your idioms and we had to break up as my eyes and heart prefer Python. Any better?
- kamaal 15y agoOn the other hand I see a massive drop in Python's popularity these days. Earlier it used to get all the talk. Coffee tables, forum discussions, debates what not. Also few days back, I used to run into people choosing Python as a language for their project all the time. That seems to falling rapidly now. The popularity and fan boy crowd seems to have moved to server side JS these days. We are only days away from how people bash Python for more recent fancier options.
- rednaught 15y agoAny idea on 5.14.0 for Strawberry Perl? Doesn't send a good signal when the Windows version starts to fall behind.
- andrewl-hn 15y agoActivePerl provided builds for 5.14 for a while. It's sure not as 'pure' as Strawberry but still very usable.
- wazoox 15y agoNo news. Strangely, it's apparently quite easy to compile 5.14 source with the dmake and compiler coming with strawberry perl 5.12.3, so I don't know what can be the problem.
- initself 15y agoThe maintenance of Strawberry Perl is not in parallel with the development of Perl in general. I'm sure the developers are working on it. It has its own architectural issues that go beyond merely compiling Perl and releasing it. If you really want to know the release date, check in with the guys at #win32 on irc.perl.org.
- wildmXranat 15y agoCool. Nice to see the updates coming but it's rather lightweight and minor. Of all my pet projects and scripts, Perl ones hold the most value. Lala.com music downloader comes to mind.
- draegtun 15y agoThis is just a maintenance update to 5.12, ie. the latest stable version of Perl. The next version (5.16) is due in Spring 2012 and there are regular (monthly) updates to this on the 5.15 development track: * 5.15.0 - http://search.cpan.org/~stevan/perl-5.15.3/pod/perl5150delta.pod http://search.cpan.org/~stevan/perl-5.15.3/pod/perl5150delta... * 5.15.1 - http://search.cpan.org/~stevan/perl-5.15.3/pod/perl5151delta.pod http://search.cpan.org/~stevan/perl-5.15.3/pod/perl5151delta... * 5.15.2 - http://search.cpan.org/~stevan/perl-5.15.3/pod/perl5152delta.pod http://search.cpan.org/~stevan/perl-5.15.3/pod/perl5152delta... * 5.15.3 - http://search.cpan.org/~stevan/perl-5.15.3/pod/perldelta.pod http://search.cpan.org/~stevan/perl-5.15.3/pod/perldelta.pod
- draegtun 15y agoOpps typo! Its maintenance update to 5.14