Hello, I was thinking about upgrading perl 5.20 in Fedora for a long time and I think the best how to do it is to wait for Fedora 22. Fedora 21 development freeze and git branching is beginning of July <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/21/Schedule>. Perl 5.20 is frozen now and the release is planned for the end of May <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl5.porters/136164/>. This gives us about a month for doing the upgrade. New perl brings a lot of changes, especially implicit handling of locales which will raise all the decimal signs and strerror() encoding issues dormant over the whole CPAN. There are also various copy-on-write optimizations which could break some XS modules. New Fedora has special schedule to deal with the Next schism. I still believe Fedora workging groups will come with something which could affect Perl as Perl is needed for base stuff (RPM, git) as well as for developer desktop (various non-core modules). Also the timing is more tight than previous years. (We used to finish perl upgrade in August.) Although my mass-rebuilding script has gained new features like really faster dependency solver (resolving 2000 packages is matter of minutes instead of hours now), I think Perl should keep Fedora 21 cool and give Fedora a rest time to accommodate to its own reorganization. I plan to upgrade perl and do the mass rebuild after branching Fedora 21, so perl 5.20 would be a system wide change for Fedora 22. -- Petr
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