On 12/29/2015 05:03 PM, Warren Young wrote:
> We recently rejected a plan to migrate to D2 when we discovered that
> Dancer2::Text::Xslate requires Perl 5.10.
>
I suggest to contact author of the Dancer2::Text::Xslate about this
prerequisite resp. trying to run it with
Perl 5.8 and fix problems.
> We still have to support 5.8 because we have an existing fleet of CentOS 5
> boxes which aren’t going away any time soon.
>
> (Upgrading them in the field is as good as impossible, and we lack a good
> business reason to have them shipped back to be upgraded. They won’t go away
> until our customers just stop using them, or they fall over dead and need to
> be replaced.)
>
> Is dropping Perl 5.8 support an intentional move? If so, we’ll have to stick
> with D1 for years to come.
Dancer2 itself should work with Perl 5.8.
>
> I know the Modern Perl movement is trying to get beyond 5.8, but the fact is,
> it was the primary version of Perl for nearly 5 years, so it left a big
> “pulse” in the timeline that will take a long time to dissipate.
>
> Incidentally, a big factor in our choice to use Dancer 1 was that it still
> supports Perl 5.8. We rejected Catalyst and Mojolicious without even
> evaluating them because they both require Perl 5.10.
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Also you have always the choice to install a custom Perl on these boxes.
Regards
Racke
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