Perl 5.14.2 is now available

Re:Perl 5.14.2 is now available by thomas11 on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @03:49AM (#3042300)

I like and use Perl and love seeing Perl news on HN, but do we really need the announcements of minor maintenance releases? Since people are voting it up, there is obviously some interest in it, but I don't get it. Plus, there's not even a changelog at the above link.

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Re:Perl 5.14.2 is now available by deepakg on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @04:05AM (#3042355)

From the link above: You can find a full list of changes in the file "perldelta.pod" located in the "pod" directory inside the release and on the web at: https://metacpan.org/module/FLORA/perl-5.14.2/pod/perldelta....

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Re:Perl 5.14.2 is now available by thomas11 on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @05:11AM (#3042508)

Thanks for the correction, I missed the "on the web" part.

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Re:Perl 5.14.2 is now available by pyre on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @04:07AM (#3042361)

Sometimes I think that whether or not something gets updated is a function of what else there is to upvote at the time.

People hop onto HN and upvote the things that are interesting. If a Perl release is the only interesting thing, then so be it. You could borrow a meme from slashdot.org and call it a 'slow news day.' (I realize that the phrase is older than slashdot)

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Re:Perl 5.14.2 is now available by VMG on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @05:30AM (#3042555)

it may just be an exucse to talk about Perl once in a while.

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Re:Perl 5.14.2 is now available by kokey on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @06:01AM (#3042612)

Yup, I think it's that, it's nice for perl users to find each other. Every second job I do seems to involve writing a lot of perl code. The release notes reminds me how much I still don't know about perl.

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Re:Perl 5.14.2 is now available by berntb on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @07:07AM (#3042758)

It makes me mostly sad; I can't use features after 5.8. Moo(se) et al is what I do after $work. :-(

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Re:Perl 5.14.2 is now available by mst on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @08:50AM (#3042988)

Pretty much all of the CPAN stuff I care about - Moose, Catalyst, DBIx::Class etc. supports as far back as 5.8.5 still - specifically for the people stuck with old RHEL systems and similar.

While it's disappointing that you don't get to use a newer perl at work, you should still be able to play with most of the shiny modules. There's plenty of CPAN authors still happy to do the legwork to make that so, because we don't want to exclude a bunch of people just because their perl5 VM sucks.

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Re:Perl 5.14.2 is now available by initself on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @08:53AM (#3042999)

Work to change your company's culture!

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Re:Perl 5.14.2 is now available by berntb on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @08:58AM (#3043015)

I am considering to vote with my feet. :-( I just don't want to go to England...

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Re:Perl 5.14.2 is now available by adam-_- on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @10:11AM (#3043306)

We're upgrading to 5.12.4 right now, so if you do decide to vote with your feet, feel free to message me...

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Re:Perl 5.14.2 is now available by merlincorey on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @07:02AM (#3042747)

I would have been excited to see Perl6!

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Re:Perl 5.14.2 is now available by draegtun on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @07:30AM (#3042804)

The last release of Rakudo (Perl6 on Parrot) was in July: http://rakudo.org/2011/07/29/rakudo-star-2011-07-released/

The next release is due soon and this includes some heavy refactoring so will be a lot quicker: http://rakudo.org/2011/08/19/rakudo-2011-08-release-status/ & http://rakudo.org/2011/09/09/nom-branch-default/

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Re:Perl 5.14.2 is now available by initself on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @08:56AM (#3043005)

Perl 6 is an entirely different language than Perl 5.14 with an entirely different development path. I don't see Perl 6 as "the next version of Perl". Perl 5 continues to thrive and will for some time.

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