The current stable upstream version at the time of this writing is 5.6.0. There is currently work in progress on the next major revision, although the specifications have yet to be finalised.
It is anticipated that when Perl 6 is released it will initially be
packaged as perl6
, install
the binary as /usr/bin/perl6
and use different
directories for packaged modules to perl
:
/usr/lib/perl6 /usr/share/perl6
This will allow Perl 5 and 6 packages and modules (which should be
packaged as libfoo-bar-perl6
), to co-exist for as
long as required.
At some stage in the future when Perl 6 is sufficiently mature, the
package naming may be reversed such that the perl
package contains Perl 6 and the
current package becomes perl5
.