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I 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
by thomas11 15y ago
I 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.