in reply to Perl Version Differences

There is a perldelta included in every recent perl release (since at least 5.004) summing up the differences with the previous versions.

However, the fact that you have to ask here for reasons seems to be you don't have a cause. Either you have a reason for installing 5.8.3 over 5.6.1 (and then you don't need to ask here), or you don't, in which case it doesn't matter if 5.6.1 gets installed.

I did not recommend that 5.8.4 be installed because I had read somewhere that even-number versions of Perl are somewhat experimental.
That's odd major numbers (the second number). That is, the second number. 5.7.x are development releases, and so are 5.9.x. 5.6.x and 5.8.x are stable releases.

Abigail

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Re: Re: Perl Version Differences
by Happy-the-monk (Canon) on May 14, 2004 at 14:37 UTC

    There is a perldelta included in every recent perl release (since at least 5.004) summing up the differences with the previous versions.

    Some perldelta pages are available on perldoc.com so you don't have to get all Perl versions to get all the perldelta.

    However, the fact that you have to ask here for reasons seems to be you don't have a cause.

    It looks to me that he has a cause but thinks he needs further technical backing up for it.

    Cheers, Sören

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      pages are available on perldoc.com so you don't have to get all Perl versions to get all the perldelta

      You don't have to anyway. All the old perldeltas are included with your version of perl. E.g. to get the delta that came with 5.6.1, run perldoc perl561delta

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