Which one is old version between 5.6.x and 5.18.x

[teddykim]

Dear everybody,
I have never developped something on Perl, but in my project, when
I try to setup my new applicaion, it's recommended to ACTIVE PERL
VERSION 5.18 or NEW VERSION.
Could some one tell me about how to active perl and how do I find
Perl software for setup?
Thank you in advance for your great help,
Teddy Kim

 

[Joe Smith]

Dear everybody,
I have never developped something on Perl, but in my project, when
I try to setup my new applicaion, it's recommended to ACTIVE PERL
VERSION 5.18 or NEW VERSION.
Could some one tell me about how to active perl and how do I find
Perl software for setup?

1) There is no such thing as Perl version 5.18; you must be thinking
of Perl version 5.8.1 instead. 5.6.1 -> 5.8.1 -> 5.8.4=newest

2) http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/ says:
ActivePerl DOWNLOAD
The industry-standard Perl distribution for Linux, Solaris and Windows
Current releases: ActivePerl 5.8.4.810, ActivePerl 5.6.1.638

3) Questions like this should be posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc
newsgroup, not this one (comp.lang.perl).

-Joe