On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 11:40:07AM +1000, Ron Savage wrote:
> How much change would result, and how difficult would it be, if you
> deleted data pertaining to version of Perl which are no longer supported?
Wearing my author hat I very much want to see test results on older
versions of perl. Even if p5p doesn't support something I might well do.
Wearing my user hat, there are bazillions of systems out there using old
versions of perl, for which test results on those old versions are very
useful. For example, until March this year the stuff I work in $dayjob
was on perl 5.14. While we're now on 5.22, I believe that will go out of
p5p-support next year. Whether we upgrade then or not depends on whether
we can get rid of a dependency on a dependency on a dependency on Coro
by then.
Finally wearing my tester hat, if I didn't think that test results from
perl 5.8 were useful I wouldn't bother generating them!
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