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.
Not arguing that trying to update is a good idea. Kinda all for that, actually.
The consideration in my brain actually is that if we're going to require specific versions that may not be in the standard distro-install channels, we'd prolly wanna provide that version. Prime Example: perlbal.
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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.
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The consideration in my brain actually is that if we're going to require specific versions that may not be in the standard distro-install channels, we'd prolly wanna provide that version. Prime Example: perlbal.
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