From fb17a1456179b92a309c66bf17b71cc4a6ea7bfc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Wong Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2020 22:44:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] doc/technical/whyperl: note Perl 7 announcement Right now[1] the Perl upstream plan is to maintain 5 compatibility in Perl 7 for at least 5 years[1], and perhaps drop it when Perl 8 comes along. That said, distros may pick it and maintain 5 on their own given the vast amounts of perfectly good legacy code out there. [1] http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/257817 [2] http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/257565 --- Documentation/technical/whyperl.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/technical/whyperl.txt b/Documentation/technical/whyperl.txt index 01ce71e2..de6f912a 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/whyperl.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/whyperl.txt @@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ Good Things Perl had fewer breaking changes than Python or Ruby; we expect that trend to continue given the inertia of Perl 5. + Note: this document was written before the Perl 7 announcement. + We'll continue to monitor and adapt to the situation around + what distros are doing in regard to maintaining compatibility. + * Built for text processing Our focus is plain-text mail, and Perl has many built-ins -- 2.44.0