I am wondering is there any supported distribution which ships 5.8.8 (not 5.8.9).

Not that I could find, but that doesn't mean such a distro doesn't exist. I'm sorry I don't have a more specific answer for you. To find this out, one would have to look at every distribution out there1, and find out which releases are still in support (or which might even have paid vendor support available, which isn't always obvious), and then find out which Perl is packaged with that release, which may or may not be (easily) discernible without actually installing the distribution.

Personally, I don't go out of my way to support anything older than 5.10 for new code. I don't go out of my way to break it, either, but if it fails the tests on older Perls and the fix is sufficiently ugly, I just bump use 5.0xx and MIN_PERL_VERSION accordingly and move on.

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1. Are we limited to Linux? Because I have a mechanical switch on my garage door hooked up to a PPC dev board running an older, still supported, commercial BSD release with Perl 5.6, and there's not enough room on flash to install anything newer.

In reply to Re: I wonder if there are any supported distro with 5.8.8 perl (not 5.8.9)? by rjt
in thread I wonder if there are any supported distro with 5.8.8 perl (not 5.8.9)? by vsespb

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