Did somebody move to perl 5.10?

[zeiz]

Did somebody move to perl 5.10?
How it feels like?

 

[SirDice]

Exactly the same as 5.8. There are of course a few differences but I haven't encountered any issues.

 

[zeiz]

I have. Slower performance.
Sounds like no sense to switch yet?

 

[fronclynne]

I don't use perl directly, but I can't see where it makes some life-changing difference.

 

[DutchDaemon]

I haven't seen any problems, though I only use Perl as a 'supporting service' for other apps. The only problem remains upgrading, which seems to mandate recursive upgrading nowadays.

 

[troberts]

Will the developers of Perl do what the developers of Python did and say Perl 5.10 is now the default version so upgrade Perl and everything dependent on it?

 

[zeiz]

So far they only say "if you want to switch..."
I wanted to try and I actually degraded perfect system totally compilled from ports (days to compile). Too bad... though it could be another reason. Anyway indeed: don't improve what's working fine

 

[vivek]

I had few small issues. But once everything was recompiled that depended upon Perl. Now, it is working like a charm.