[oi-dev] Perl 5.22 integration

[Alexander Pyhalov]

Hello.
As Perl 5.16 is becoming more and more old, I have plans to integrate 
Perl 5.22.

The component itself is ready (but not committed to oi-userland yet), 
it's an easy part.
Now I'm working on Perl modules.

After modules are ready I'll look if illumos-gate (and sun-solaris Perl 
module) can be built with new Perl. If it's OK, I plan to integrate new 
perl and modules.

Then we'll have to rebuild perl dependencies so that they required 
either Perl 5.16 and Perl 5.22.

Then I'm going to make Perl 5.22 the default one, drop Perl 5.10 (which 
we had for building unpatched illumos-gate, and which is not necessary 
now) and
some old packages dependent on perl on the way, including mysql 5.1 (we 
have MariaDB 5.5 and Percona Server 5.5/5.6) and apache 1.3 (which was 
required to build illumos-gate earlier).

I think Perl 5.16 and 5.22 can coexist for some time, later we'll drop 
5.16.

If someone knows why it's a bad idea, it's good time to speak.
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