[Petal] Vote: What version of Perl are you using?

[Grant McLean]

William McKee wrote:
> This is a quick straw poll to find out what version of Perl everyone on
> the list is using.
> 
> Perl 5.6.1
> 
> William
> 
Most systems I work with are on 5.6.1

I think bumping the required Perl version to 5.8.0 would be a
significant barrier for many people.

I would guess that Debian 'stable' and RedHat 7.X will be common for
production servers for some time to come and they don't come with Perl 5.8.

I would also guess that many people would use mod_perl to deploy
solutions based around Petal.  For these  people, upgrading Perl would
also require upgrading mod_perl and rebuilding Apache - not 'rocket
surgery' perhaps but also not trivial if you've never done it before.

Grant