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== Benefit to Fedora ==
== Benefit to Fedora ==
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Fedora as bleeding edge distribution should be shipping new release of perl as one of the first distributions.


== Scope ==
== Scope ==

Revision as of 13:41, 31 May 2012

Perl 5.16

Summary

Perl 5.16 brings a lot of changes. Details about them could be found at perl [delta]

Owner

Current status

  • Targeted release: Fedora 18
  • Last updated: 2012-05-31
  • Percentage of completion:  %
  • Development Status:

Completed items

TBD

Items in progress

TBD

Items still to be done

TBD

Detailed Description

Perl releases will be now every year and updates during year will be containing mainly bug fixes. The release 5.16.0 should be stable release, but 5.16.1 should contain bugfixes for issues introduced in 5.16.0.

Benefit to Fedora

Fedora as bleeding edge distribution should be shipping new release of perl as one of the first distributions.

Scope

How To Test

Download packages from koji's buildroot dist-f16-perltest or try your packages with rebuild build requirements related to perl.

User Experience

Dependencies

Contingency Plan

Documentation

Release Notes

Comments and Discussion