Support by major distribution is one aspect, but not the only one. Others I can list offhand: - Support by perl core developers (fixes for major bugs or security holes) - Support by Perl modules or tools we need to use, or would like to use.
While you are correct that jumping to 5.14 may not be feasible (regardless of the wisdom of trying to), it remains that 5.8 and 5.10 are no longer supported in the ways I listed above, and that preparing to move to a version that is (meaning 5.12 if 5.14 turns out to break too much stuff) is IMO a good idea.
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- Support by perl core developers (fixes for major bugs or security holes)
- Support by Perl modules or tools we need to use, or would like to use.
While you are correct that jumping to 5.14 may not be feasible (regardless of the wisdom of trying to), it remains that 5.8 and 5.10 are no longer supported in the ways I listed above, and that preparing to move to a version that is (meaning 5.12 if 5.14 turns out to break too much stuff) is IMO a good idea.