This is sometimes very frustrating since 5.8 has some great features that i really really really miss , for instance :

- Math::BigInt was kinda broken for me in 5.6

- Win32::Job for 5.8 can redirect the STDERR and STDOUT of a spawned process to whatever file you choose before spawning. I keep complaining about this but it would have made my life so much easier !

For some reason the migration of perl 5.6 to 5.8 is something that seems impossible to even consider. Maybe new servers will have 5.8 installed, but old ones with 5.6 will keep it. Too many servers, too many different applications, fear of breaking things, lack of knowledge on how to have many versions and their modules coexist ...

Do not think that it's better on Unix systems, where you will mostly find 5.005_03 ...