Important: Perl 5.10 now considered required for DW installs

[mark]

Hi all,

We're here at OSCON (O'Reilly's Open Source Conference in Portland) with a bunch of the volunteers who work on Dreamwidth. Related to this, we've finally decided to force an upgrade to our Perl base version required.

kareila says it well:

Hello all! A few facts have recently come to our attention:

1) Perl 5.10 has a significant number of new, desirable features over Perl 5.8.

2) Perl 5.10 was released 5 years ago, so it's reasonable to assume most people are using Perl 5.10 or newer in production.

3) We are, in fact, using Perl 5.10 in production.

Therefore, we are planning to start requiring Perl 5.10 as we fix bugs and add new features in the future. If you are running a Dreamwidth installation on a version of Perl older than 5.10, now would be an excellent time to consider upgrading.

We are also considering moving to 5.12 or 5.14 soon. We need to do some more investigation and also validate the system on those versions. But for now, consider 5.10 as required.

Thanks!

Comments

[exor674]

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

[azurelunatic]

Linked to this from http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/wiki/index.php/Dev_Troubleshooting#Correct_version_of_Perl -- there may well be other places that need to know this.

[sophie]

For anybody concerned about Dreamhacks: The Dreamhack server has been using 5.10 for some time now, so no need to worry if you're using a Dreamhack :)

[fu]

Excellent, thank you!