Hi,<br><br>I noticed on a few tutorials around the place there is a requirement for 5.10+<br><br>I agree there has to be a minimum level, but I think asking for 5.10 might be pushing it?<br><br>I'm not on 5.10 and I'm not going to upgrade any of my systems to it for a while, because it's not the OS default and it's a pain.<br>
<br>Could I suggest that all <a href="http://learn.perl.org">learn.perl.org</a> documentation must run on:<br><br>5.8+? - with a mention that most stuff will work on 5.6+? (I really don't know the differences enough to write this page, but there should be a single page saying why we suggest 5.8+).<br>
<br>Where possible we want newbies to be using their locally install version of Perl. The site should suggest Strawberry Perl for windows users and what ever is native on *nix or OSX.<br><br>Having to explain about separate build environments / not blowing up the OS Perl etc on the first install is just too much for a newbie.<br>
<br>The idea should be to get someone going quickly in the safest way possible (I'm not ruling out talking about local::lib and other useful techniques for making the newbie environment easier to use).<br><br>Does this sound reasonable?<br>
<br>Leo<br><br><br><br><br><br>