Perl 5.14.2 is now available

http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177618.html

by Phra • 15 years ago

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peteretep2• 15 years ago

Long live Perl! Let's hope we managed the porting of CPAN to Perl 6 sensibly.

irahul2• 15 years ago

I don't understand your comment about Perl 6. Where does Perl 6 come into picture while talking about Perl 5?

thomas112• 15 years ago

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.

deepakg• 15 years ago

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....

thomas112• 15 years ago

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

pyre• 15 years ago

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)

VMG• 15 years ago

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

kokey• 15 years ago

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.

merlincorey• 15 years ago

I would have been excited to see Perl6!

draegtun4• 15 years ago

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/

initself3• 15 years ago

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.

danssig4• 15 years ago

What is this doing here? Flagged.

parasctr• 15 years ago

Like all the other release about nodejs, clojure, python, ruby etc. etc. that are submitted to hacker news.

hartror4• 15 years ago

Perl has been completely replaced by Python for me. Perl was the second language I learned in around 1995 after learning Turbo Pascal in my pre-teens. Perl allowed me to learn the programming arts freely, the programs I wrote weren't pretty back then but they ran and performed a function. It let me experiment with CGI, GUIs and writing video games.

Thanks Perl. Pity you were so ugly and we had to break up but Python is "cleaner"[1] and I just couldn't stick with you.

[1] Personal preference I am not looking for a fight :)

irahul2• 15 years ago

> Pity you were so ugly

> [1] Personal preference I am not looking for a fight :)

Your wordings don't align with the disclaimer. That's like saying "you are an idiot, but hey, it's a personal perspective - I am not looking for a fight".

FWIW, I have used perl heavily, and now a days mostly do Python and Ruby. My reasons for Python/Ruby are basically Nltk/Flask/Gevent, Rails etc and don't have much to do with the languages themselves. They are pretty interchangeable with some syntax difference.

hartror4• 15 years ago

My words do. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I prefer many things about Python over Perl not just the syntax. I wasn't claiming that I think others are stupid for liking or using it, just my personal preference of what I like in a language.

Perhaps I could have worded it a little less flame bait like:

Pity I didn't like your idioms and we had to break up as my eyes and heart prefer Python.

Any better?

SimHacker• 15 years ago

But Perl IS ugly. You haven't noticed that before? The truth hurts.

pavelkaroukin• 15 years ago

If you still consider Perl, I recommend checking out: Plack, AnyEvent::*, Catalyst/Dancer (depending on required complexity) for web stuff.

Perl libraries made a huge leap forward. And for me it was unnoticed.

peteretep2• 15 years ago

People complaining about Perl being ugly is a bit like people complaining that clay is ugly. Yes, you can build tremendously ugly Perl, but you can also build code of breath-taking beauty, combining the best parts of functional programming and OO...

danssig4• 15 years ago

So, it's a general purpose programming language like a lot of other languages are too? The complaint is obviously that Perl is uglier than it needs to be. You can see this when you compare it to other languages that are just as (if not more) powerful but not as ugly.

rednaught• 15 years ago

Any idea on 5.14.0 for Strawberry Perl? Doesn't send a good signal when the Windows version starts to fall behind.

andrewl-hn• 15 years ago

ActivePerl provided builds for 5.14 for a while. It's sure not as 'pure' as Strawberry but still very usable.

wazoox• 15 years ago

No news. Strangely, it's apparently quite easy to compile 5.14 source with the dmake and compiler coming with strawberry perl 5.12.3, so I don't know what can be the problem.

initself3• 15 years ago

The maintenance of Strawberry Perl is not in parallel with the development of Perl in general. I'm sure the developers are working on it. It has its own architectural issues that go beyond merely compiling Perl and releasing it.

If you really want to know the release date, check in with the guys at #win32 on irc.perl.org.

wildmXranat• 15 years ago

Cool. Nice to see the updates coming but it's rather lightweight and minor. Of all my pet projects and scripts, Perl ones hold the most value. Lala.com music downloader comes to mind.

draegtun4• 15 years ago

This is just a maintenance update to 5.12, ie. the latest stable version of Perl.

The next version (5.16) is due in Spring 2012 and there are regular (monthly) updates to this on the 5.15 development track:

* 5.15.0 - http://search.cpan.org/~stevan/perl-5.15.3/pod/perl5150delta...

* 5.15.1 - http://search.cpan.org/~stevan/perl-5.15.3/pod/perl5151delta...

* 5.15.2 - http://search.cpan.org/~stevan/perl-5.15.3/pod/perl5152delta...

* 5.15.3 - http://search.cpan.org/~stevan/perl-5.15.3/pod/perldelta.pod

draegtun4• 15 years ago

Opps typo! Its maintenance update to 5.14

Perl 5.14.2 is now available

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