> Jacinta Richardson <jarich@perltraining.com.au> wrote:
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> There are lots of good reasons to use Perl 5.10
> (http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?why_you_should_upgrade_to_
> perl_5_10
> ), but who's managed to get it on to their personal machine? development
> machines? testing?  production?
> 

I've tried building 5.10.0 from source on Cygwin and failed for strange reasons that I don't understand (and can't properly recall, at the moment). There's no problem building 5.8.8 from source on Cygwin ... just 5.10.0.

And that's about the only problem I've had with 5.10. On native Win32 (Vista 64) I have Strawberry Perl, ActivePerl (both 32-bit and 64-bit), perl 5.10 built myself from source (using the MinGW port of gcc-3.4.5) and 5.11.0 built from source (using the same MinGW compiler).

On Linux (32-bit, mandrake-9.1) I have 3 versions of 5.10; one I built with -Duse64bitint, one I built with both -Duse64bitint and -Duselongdouble and one I built with neither of those 2 options.

Apart from Cygwin, perl 5.10 has been a pleasure to build/install and work with - though I haven't really tried out any of the 5.10-specific features.

(These are personal boxes, btw .... in case that's not apparent.)

Cheers,
Rob