On Mar 8, 2010, at 6:34 PM, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On 3/8/2010 9:32, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: >> >>> >>> The perl interpreter is also on the N900, version 5.8.3 >> >> What are the odds of 5.10 or 5.12 making it into MeeGo? I can live with >> 5.8, I think, but I've been on 5.10 so long now I'm not at all sure my >> stuff would work with 5.8.
Yeah, 5.8.3 I think is like four years old now. Nokia has never paid a lot of attention to the perl interpreter despite the fact that they rely on it so heavily in Maemo. A great deal of the underlying OS is glued together will perl and Maemo inherits lots of that from debian. Kind of strange because there are some great perl hackers in Finland. In any case, I have seen some packages for perl 5.10 floating out there and I suspect it wouldn't be too hard to get 5.10 on the device either as a package or if you were to compile it yourself. > > I would expect 5.10 at minimum; for the short term release. Longer term I'd > expect > newer versions to be followed. > But perl is like the C compiler, you do freeze that somewhat in the first > half of your development cycle > since so many other things depend on it. Upstream the perl 5 porters work really hard not to break backwards compatibility, so I suspect perl can be updated in MeeGo more often than Nokia updates their perl interpreter. I see no real need for a 'freeze'. In fact debian has perl 5.10.1-11 in Squeeze so that is tracking quite closely with upstream. Debian is somewhat ahead of other distros when it comes to perl. You can see that from the Perl Foundation itself when they discuss distributing perl they often hold up debian as the example for other linux distros. Yet another reason why the choice of rpm was a Bad Idea. Jeremiah
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