[Info-vax] Perl (for OpenSSL) v. me

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In article <n9e2ph$h9u$1 at dont-email.me>, "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> writes:
>On 2/9/16 2:25 AM, richard at levitte.org wrote:
>> Den söndag 7 februari 2016 kl. 08:58:58 UTC+1 skrev Steven Schweda:
>>> M. Levitte suggests that Perl 5.10.1 worked for someone on VMS.
>>
>
>> Not quite.  I believe you refer to this part of my announcement on
>> openssl-dev:
>>
>>> - Perl!  Reports tell me that version 5.10.1 works fine but might
>>> need
>>
>> That was perl in general, not perl on VMS specifically.  The report
>> is based on what versions of core modules came with different
>> versions of perl, and someone (I can't remember who for the moment)
>> helped me determine that 5.10.1 had good enough compatibility.  Of
>> course, that person is based on Unix.
>
>5.10.1 was a good release and an important one given that it broke the
>logjam and got releases going again after a few years without one. But
>by my count there have been 25 stable releases since then (current is
>5.22.1) and I can't think of a good reason to be using a release that
>old anymore.

When did .1 come of age?  I have 5.22.0.

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