in reply to Getting current versions of Perl

i also noticed that going here shows 5.004_05 as the previous version. I was under the impression that 5.005_03 was the previous stable version...this caused massive problems when i told a co-worker to compile a perl with threads so that he could test some code i was working on (He went to the website, and grabbed what he thought was the old stable version, 5.004_05, which has no thread support). Is there a reason for this, or is this just a bug/typo on the website?

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RE (2): Getting current versions of Perl
by tilly (Archbishop) on Aug 08, 2000 at 22:52 UTC
    I will tell you the situation, and you tell me how to classify it. :-)

    The 5.005 series was a significant change from 5.004 because a lot of work was needed to make Windows one of the core platforms. Therefore the following releases happened in order:

    5.004_04
    5.005_00
    5.005_01 (very shortly after IIRC)
    5.005_02
    5.005_03
    5.004_05 (backported bug fixes for people who didn't switch)
    5.6.0 (Note new numbering scheme)

    If history repeats we would see more upgrades to 5.6.x, followed in due time by backported bug-fixes labelled 5.005_04.

    So the last released version called stable before 5.6.0 was indeed 5.004_05.

    Cheers,
    Ben

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