perl: compatibility recommendations in version data

diff --git a/perl.inc.pl b/perl.inc.pl
index d81743d99577237edbb526fc0e62b82e93ea2c05..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',
        },
 

diff --git a/perl.plp b/perl.plp
index 4e6222ded9f8ced28e05293ade8065a975549213..8735f5f4f42d403fd9214342c192100013d9492e 100644 (file)
--- a/perl.plp
+++ b/perl.plp
@@ -16,13 +16,15 @@ Html({
 
 <p>The most significant features introduced for recent versions of the Perl
 scripting language.
-Depending on desired compatibility you'll want to support a minimum of
-<span title="on dinosaur platforms such as Solaris 10, AIX 5.2, RHEL 3, SLES 8">v5.8</span> or
-<span title="on stable servers such as Debian wheezy, Ubuntu 12.04, CentOS 7">v5.14</span>.
-</p>
-
 <:
 my $info = do 'perl.inc.pl' or die $@ // $!;
+
+say "Depending on desired compatibility you'll want to support a minimum of";
+say join(' or ', map {
+       sprintf '<span title="on %s">v%vd</span>', $info->{$_}->{distrosum}, $_
+} v5.8, v5.14), '.';
+say '</p>';
+
 for my $vernum (reverse sort keys %{$info}) {
        my $verrow = $info->{$vernum};
        defined $verrow->{unstable} and next unless exists $get{v};