perl: intro advising common support requirements

[sheet.git] / perl.inc.pl

diff --git a/perl.inc.pl b/perl.inc.pl
index 1ca3b4d0c5086c8d55b97b0dce59e1f11e964fd4..87684652975ff4f49b0c1c6a3cf9a9393212db0c 100644 (file)
--- a/perl.inc.pl
+++ b/perl.inc.pl
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ use utf8;
                release => '2000-03-23',
                distro => {
                        debian => 'woody',
-                       redhat => '2.1',
-                       solaris => '9', # 2002-05 eol 2014-10
+                       rhel => '2', # v5.6.0; also in red hat 7.0
+                       solaris => '9', # v5.6.1; 2002-05 eol 2014-10
                },
                unicode => '3.0.1',
        },
@@ -40,8 +40,9 @@ use utf8;
                release => '2002-07-18',
                distro => {
                        debian => 'sarge',
-                       redhat => '3.9',
+                       rhel => '3', # v5.8.0; v5.8.8 in RHEL6 (2007-2014)
                        solaris => '10', # v5.8.4; 2005-01 eol 2021-01
+                       centos => '3-5', # v5.8.0 in v3 (2004-03); v5.8.8 in v5 (eol 2017-03)
                },
                unicode => '3.2.0',
        },
@@ -59,7 +60,8 @@ use utf8;
                release => '2007-12-18',
                distro => {
                        debian => 'lenny',
-                       redhat => '6.5',
+                       rhel => '6', # v5.10.1
+                       centos => '6', # v5.10.1 (2011-07 eol 2020-11)
                },
                unicode => '5.0.0',
        },
@@ -84,7 +86,7 @@ use utf8;
                new => [
                        ['<code>s///r</code>', 'non-destructive substitution'],
                        ['<code>/(?^)/</code>', 'construct to reset to default modifiers'],
-                       ['<code>/(?{ m// })/</code>', 'regular expressions can be nested in <code>/(?{})/</code> and <code>/(??{})/</code>'],
+                       ['<code>/(?{ m() })/</code>', 'regular expressions can be nested in <code>/(?{})/</code> and <code>/(??{})/</code>'],
                        ["<code>use re '/flags'</code>", 'customize default modifiers'],
                        ['<code>each $ref</code> e.a.', 'array and hash container functions accept references'],
                        ['<code>FH->method</code>', 'filehandle method calls load IO::File on demand (eg. <code>STDOUT->flush</code>)'],
@@ -104,7 +106,8 @@ use utf8;
                ],
                release => '2012-05-20',
                distro => {
-                       redhat => '7.0',
+                       rhel => '7', # v5.16.3
+                       centos => '7', # v5.16.3 (2014-07 eol 2024-06)
                },
                unicode => '6.1',
        },