perl: compatibility recommendations in version data

[sheet.git] / perl.inc.pl

diff --git a/perl.inc.pl b/perl.inc.pl
index c8ffc087ce17c4497c1f387e97efb1e452a25a6b..8811babf25477e3f4d716baeeea4bb5fdaed40c8 100644 (file)
--- a/perl.inc.pl
+++ b/perl.inc.pl
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ use utf8;
                        ubuntu => '4.10',
                        aix => '5.2', # v5.8.0; v5.8.2 in 5.3 and 6.1 (eol 2017-04-30)
                },
+               distrosum => "dinosaur platforms such as Solaris 10, AIX 5.2, RHEL 3, SLES 8",
                unicode => '3.2.0',
        },
 
@@ -124,6 +125,7 @@ use utf8;
                        debian => 'wheezy',
                        ubuntu => '12.04',
                },
+               distrosum => "stable servers such as Debian wheezy, Ubuntu 12.04, CentOS 7",
                unicode => '6.0+#8',
        },
 
@@ -145,7 +147,7 @@ use utf8;
                new => [
                        ['<code>${^LAST_FH}</code>', 'last read filehandle (used by <code>$.</code>)'],
                        ['<code>/(?[ a + b ])/</code>', 'regex set operations (character substraction <code>-</code>, unions <code>&amp;</code>)', {experimental => 'regex_sets'}],
-                       ['<code>my sub</code>', 'lexical subroutines (also <code>state</code>, <code>our</code>); buggy before v5.22', {feature => 'lexical_subs', experimental => 'lexical_subs'}],
+                       ['<code>my sub</code>', 'lexical subroutines (also <code>state</code>, <code>our</code>); buggy before v5.22', {experimental => 'lexical_subs', stable => v5.26}],
                        ['<code>next $expression</code>', 'loop controls allow runtime expressions'],
                        [q"<code>no warnings 'experimental::…'</code>", 'mechanism for experimental features, as of now required for <em>smartmatch</em>'],
                ],
@@ -199,13 +201,13 @@ use utf8;
                release => '2016-05-09',
        },
 
-       v5.25.10 => {
+       v5.26 => {
                new => [
                        ['<code>&lt;&lt;~EOT</code>', 'indented here-docs, strips same whitespace before delimiter in each line'],
                        ['<code>@{^CAPTURE}</code>', q"array of last match's captures, so <code>${^CAPTURE}[0]</code> is <code>$1</code>"],
                        ['<code>//xx</code>', 'extended modifier to also ignore whitespace in bracketed character classes'],
                ],
                unicode => '9.0', # also Script_Extensions/scx in "\p{script}"
-               release => '2017-02-20',
+               release => '2017-05-30',
        },
 }