From The Linux Foundation

Interpreted Languages

Perl

• Based on 5.8.X, with X >= 8
• Core perl/modules as shipped in the upstream tarballs with selected exceptions
• Distribution test suite adapted from perl build-time tests
• Appchk based on perldeps.pl from the rpm-build package
• Perl Foundation has secured a static reference spec for 5.8.8
• Proposed spec
• Some question as to whether we should exclude DB_FILE, ODBM_File, NDBM_File (not all distros ship these, somewhat deprecated)

Python

• Based on 2.4.0 or greater.
• Since some distributions have moved to 2.5, only specify modules common to both 2.4 and 2.5, with 2.4 behavior.
• Distribution test suite adapted from python self-tests
• Appchk derived from ideas at http://www.tarind.com/depgraph.html
• Upstream reference spec is available
• Proposed spec