I'm inclined to agree. We have several 5.002 installations on fairly static systems. If I had to do something new with Perl on those boxes, I'd likely install a newer version, but I'd keep 5.002 as well lest I find a handful of scripts that break after an upgrade. (And, with dozens of scripts, thats likely.) An upgrade might also require upgrading modules, and that could get ugly.

In the production part of my world, perl usually gets upgraded when the hardware does.

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