Perl -- Why is 5.16 (not 5.20) the default?

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Michael wrote:
> I'd like to know if there is a good reason (such as incompatible language change) for perl to be at 5.16 by default?
>
> I noticed this when I was about to update git -- checking the variants of git, I saw that perl5.16 was the default used by git, and what looks like 2 years out of date.

See:
https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2015-February/029762.html

Mojca