So I have a hobby web box running Perl 5.005_03, and I've been thinking for some time that it's time to upgrade. (Among other things, since this box talks to the net, I want to have 3-arg open available.) My next dilemma: should I go to 5.6.1 or 5.8.0? 5.6.1 is nice and stable (relatively speaking), but this is a hobby box: it doesn't have to have five nines of uptime. Normally, I'm a bit leery of point-zero releases, but I haven't heard anything bad about 5.8.0.

Thoughts?

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In reply to Upgrade time: 5.6.1 or 5.8.0? by FoxtrotUniform

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