Hi enrgyxprt,

That "something" is kind of important, since the first release of v5.something was in 1994 and v5.24 was released last year :-)

In general, newer versions are of course better than older ones - there have been features added, security holes fixes, speed improvements made, etc. However, there have been some deprecations, so if the jump from "something" to the latest version is large and you experience problems because of this under v5.24, you may end up having to step through the major releases (v5.12, v5.14, v5.18, etc.) and test your script under each. The reason is that quite a few features went through deprecation cycles where Perl would first warn that a feature was deprecated, and the feature wasn't actually removed until a later version. However, it's also very possible that you're not using any of these deprecated features and that your script will work just fine under the latest version, so I'd recommend you try it out.

Update: See also the replies in this thread (from which I copied a sentence from my reply ;-)), and perlhist and the perldeltas for changes in each release of Perl.

Hope this helps,
-- Hauke D

In reply to Re: ActiveState new vs old? (updated) by haukex
in thread ActiveState new vs old? by enrgyxprt

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