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Bug 1428274

Summary: Time to rebase perl to the current version
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Todd <ToddAndMargo>
Component: perlAssignee: perl-maint-list
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: BaseOS QE - Apps <qe-baseos-apps>
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Version: 7.5-AltCC: ppisar, psabata
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Description Todd 2017-03-02 07:30:09 UTC 
Dear Red Hat,

You guys are making my life a nightmare using a FIVE YEAR OLD version of Perl 5.

Fedora is now on perl-5.24.0-380.fc25.x86_64

Please rebase to match Fedora!

You guys are killing me here.  I can not even use Perl 6's Inline::Perl5, do to the out dated version of Perl 5!  And I have to get Inline going to use several of the modules from Perl 5 in Perl 6 that I desperately need.

Many thanks,
-T
Comment 2 Petr Pisar 2017-03-02 10:03:51 UTC 
You can use Perl 5.24 from Red Hat Software Collections <https://developers.redhat.com/products/softwarecollections/overview/>. We are not going to rebase the system version of Perl. If you struggle with using your code on Perl 5.16, please contact Red Hat support for help.
Comment 3 Todd 2017-03-04 01:22:58 UTC 
Hi Petr,

Thank you for the link.  I went to the link and could not find any sign of Perl 5.  Am I missing something?

Many thanks,
T
Comment 4 Petr Šabata 2017-03-04 09:39:14 UTC 
(In reply to Todd from comment #3)
> Hi Petr,
> 
> Thank you for the link.  I went to the link and could not find any sign of
> Perl 5.  Am I missing something?
> 
> Many thanks,
> T

It's right on that page, under "Languages and frameworks".  Clicking on Perl takes you to https://developers.redhat.com/products/softwarecollections/hello-world/#fndtn-perl
Comment 5 Todd 2017-03-04 09:45:47 UTC 
Thank you!