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| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perl5120delta.pod | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perl5120delta.pod b/pod/perl5120delta.pod index 0772e70451..adb496582d 100644 --- a/pod/perl5120delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl5120delta.pod @@ -646,7 +646,14 @@ F<finddepth.pl>, F<importenv.pl>, F<hostname.pl>, F<getopts.pl>, F<getopt.pl>, F<getcwd.pl>, F<flush.pl>, F<fastcwd.pl>, F<exceptions.pl>, F<ctime.pl>, F<complete.pl>, F<cacheout.pl>, F<bigrat.pl>, F<bigint.pl>, F<bigfloat.pl>, F<assert.pl>, F<abbrev.pl>, F<dotsh.pl>, and -F<timelocal.pl> are all now deprecated. Using them will incur a warning. +F<timelocal.pl> are all now deprecated. Earlier, Perl's developers +intended to remove these libraries from Perl's core for the 5.14.0 release. + +During final testing before the release of 5.12.0, several developers +discovered current production code using these ancient libraries, some +inside the Perl core itself. Accordingly, the pumpking granted them +a stay of execution. They will begin to warn about their deprecation +in the 5.14.0 release and will be removed in the 5.16.0 release. =back |