CPAN/src/5.0/README This document describes the src/5.0 subdirectory of the CPAN. The directory contains sources for the Perl 5.0. As of this writing, the latest Perl 5 Official release is 5.004_04. 'Official' means the latest release by Larry Wall, the Author of Perl, and by the Perl Porters. 'Perl Porters' is a motley crew of people from around the world helping Larry to debug/port/plan Perl. --- latest.tar.gz This is the one you want. The most stable release. unsupported/ Unsupported, unstable developer releases. They might suffer from portability problems, untested, potentially destructive, new features, or other instabilities. jperl/ Japanese variant of Perl. # eof