On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Slaven Rezic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "David Golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> even if "latest" was 5+ years ago. I think we should >> discourage testing older distributions entirely. > > Old does not mean outdated and unused. I was curious and created a > list of the oldest prereqs of a pet application of mine:
I don't mean "old" in time, I mean we shouldn't test distributions that have been superseded by more recent versions on CPAN. Otherwise, we risk FAIL for things that are already fixed. That's just annoying. At the very least, we shouldn't notify people, but then I'm now taking the view we shouldn't notify anyone without their requesting it first. David
