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Wow (Score:1)

by sigzero (5768) on 2008.03.10 19:26 (#61569) Journal

That is cool! Is Fedora the first? Ubuntu Heron is still in alpha...could it make it in there as well?

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  by nicholas (3034)
  
  Ubuntu Heron
  
  I have no idea. It's not like they talk to us.
  Most of the Linux* vendors are notoriously bad at communication upstream to perl5-porters [cpan.org], with the result that usually we often don't even know the e-mail address(es) of the relevant people. It's been a pleasant change having someone from RedHat actually approach us and work with us.
  * Of the non-Linux OSes, FreeBSD, OS X and Solaris and (of all things) Stratus VOS [stratus.com] are not in that list. The EBCDIC vendor [ibm.com], on the other hand...
  - Re: (Score:1)
    
    by stu42j (6348)
    
    Looks like they are trying to get Perl 5.10 into Debian Lenny: http://wiki.debian.org/Perl5.10Transition [debian.org]

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