Hello monks,

Today I was given the opportunity based on a really nice question on the forum Another 64-bit Perl bug. Is it fixed post 5.18? to read and found that strings longer than 2**31 bytes on 64-bits OS can only be processed in Perl v5.20.0 and afterwards, more information about that can be found here Better 64-bit support.

allowing Perl arrays to hold more than 2**31 elements, if you have the memory available

So my question is, since Perl v5.20.2 is a better and stable version, why the repositories still have the v5.18.2?

Thank you for your time and effort replying to my question in advance.

Seeking for Perl wisdom...on the process of learning...not there...yet!

In reply to RFC: Why Perl v5.20.2 is available for download and v5.18.2 is available on the LinuxOS repositories by thanos1983

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