If ActiveState decides to remove old versions of Perl there's really nothing anyone can do about it. It wouldn't be legal to distribute with the server/database files.
Perl 5.12 works fine. If you had trouble with it then there must be something else wrong, and your logs would probably help to narrow it down.
The guide is not on the wiki because nobody has put it there. If you would like it on the wiki you could put it there yourself.
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