[Catalyst] Perl 5.8.1 Requirement

[Brandon Black]

On 12/21/05, Sebastian Riedel <sri at oook.de> wrote:
>
> 21.12.2005 16:37 Juan Camacho:
>
> > Is there a reason Perl 5.8.1 is required for Catalyst?
>
> Yes.
>

Aside from the specifics that Catalyst might need, perl 5.8.0 is a bad
thing to be running in general if you can at all avoid it.  5.8.1
fixed a boatload of internal things that were buggy in 5.8.0,
including some memory leaks.  It's the standard "don't use x.0
versions in production" kind of thing.  Sadly though, a number of
now-outdated *nix distributions (various older linux vendor releases,
and solaris and hpux as well) were shipped with 5.8.0, and while they
have applied some backported fixes to their vendor trees you can get
via vendor updates, the version number still says 5.8.0 to this day in
many cases.

-- Brandon