I use 5.8.8 because one of our vendor libraries (the reason for my existence) requires 5.8. It is not worth the time or the effort to do the testing required to advance to 5.8.9.

Our vendor's next step will be to 5.10.x (already been warned), so at that time, I will be moving to the latest 5.10.x version that allows my application to run. Already implementing steps to help ease that transition.

I have started to make use of the tracking features of git to keep the vendor branch of my local perl repository current, and hope to make use of it in the very near future to ensure that my development environment is as up to date as is possible.

We will see how it works.

--MidLifeXis

In reply to Re: Timeline for rolling out 5.8.9 and 5.10.0 by MidLifeXis
in thread Timeline for rolling out 5.8.9 and 5.10.0 by talexb

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