> I'm considering dropping support for Perl 5.005 in the future
> Automake 1.9, and require at least Perl 5.6. Perl 5.6 will be 4
> years old next month, so it does not sound like asking for the
> moon.
Actually, why not jumping to something really more recent. Some
people will have to upgrade their Perl installation, so they probably
won't install 5.6 anyway.
Sarathy 5.6.1-TRIAL1 2000-Dec-18 The 5.6 maintenance track.
5.6.1-TRIAL2 2001-Jan-31
5.6.1-TRIAL3 2001-Mar-19
5.6.1-foolish 2001-Apr-01 The "fools-gold" release.
5.6.1 2001-Apr-08
Rafael 5.6.2-RC1 2003-Nov-08
5.6.2 2003-Nov-15 Fix new build issues
Jarkko 5.7.0 2000-Sep-02 The 5.7 track: Development.
5.7.1 2001-Apr-09
5.7.2 2001-Jul-13 Virtual release candidate 0.
5.7.3 2002-Mar-05
5.8.0-RC1 2002-Jun-01
5.8.0-RC2 2002-Jun-21
5.8.0-RC3 2002-Jul-13
5.8.0 2002-Jul-18
5.8.1-RC1 2003-Jul-10
5.8.1-RC2 2003-Jul-11
5.8.1-RC3 2003-Jul-30
5.8.1-RC4 2003-Aug-01
5.8.1-RC5 2003-Sep-22
5.8.1 2003-Sep-25
Nicholas 5.8.2-RC1 2003-Oct-27
5.8.2-RC2 2003-Nov-03
5.8.2 2003-Nov-05
5.8.3-RC1 2004-Jan-07
5.8.3 2004-Jan-14
Hugo 5.9.0 2003-Oct-27
How about 5.8? What's the version shipped with current RedHats etc.?
