Prefered Perl & MySQL versions

[CodeMephit]

Greetings,

I am laying the groundwork down for a new server. I made a handful of non-public servers on Windows machines about 2-3 years ago, but now I am ready to try my hand at a Linux server. This server will be built upon the Linux From Scratch distribution.

I can choose to use the 'stable' LFS / BLFS 6.3 release that contains:

• Perl 5.8.8
• MySQL 5.0.41

Or, I can use the 'development' LFS / BLFS 6.7 release that contains:

• Perl 5.12.1
• MySQL 5.1.52

My question to the community is: Which versions of Perl & MySQL would be the preferred versions to use? Are there any incompatibilities with a particular version?


Thanks in advance for your replies,
-Codemephit