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

[richard at levitte.org]

Den onsdag 10 februari 2016 kl. 02:15:15 UTC+1 skrev Craig A. Berry:
> [perl] 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.

OpenSSL is used quite widely and on machinery that hasn't been updated for various reasons (uhmmm, "it works, don't fix it!", but that'd be rather silly, considering).  But yeah, we've had reports from people who are stuck with old perl versions, and it was determined that 5.10.1 was a good minimum recommendation (you can go older as well, but that comes with a price).