On 01/05/2016 07:05 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On 5 January 2016 at 02:18, ToddAndMargo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Any rumors as to when we will be seeing Perl 6?
>
> As has been said multiple times, if you are wanting to see what might
> be going into future EL's you need to look at Fedora and not at a 3rd
> hop downstream. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Perl
>
> That said there are various forms of perl6 in Fedora and some CPAN
> items there. The language is not a drop in replacement for perl5 so
> you can't just switch them out.
>
> I do not expect at this time that perl6 would be in RHEL-8 but could
> be in EPEL for either 7 or 8 if people wanted it to and worked on
> doing so.
>

What goes on in Fedora eventually winds up in EL

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1296363