I agree with Dave on this one. Unless there is some feature in a new version of Perl that I just have to have (usually in my work environment where we have full control over all machines) I try to write code that will run on 5.8.x (or more recently 5.10.x) if it is destined for CPAN or other public consumption. There are shared hosting providers that have just recently upgraded from 5.8.8 to 5.10 (I can think of two MAJOR providers.) Yes, one can always run perlbrew, but that is not always a reasonable option in a hosted environment.
Jim -----Original Message----- From: Dave Rolsky [mailto:auta...@urth.org] Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 9:05 AM To: Jean Forget Cc: datetime@perl.org Subject: Re: 1) Datetime website 2) recommended practice to alter API On Fri, 27 Sep 2013, Jean Forget wrote: > When I try to access the http://datetime.perl.org/wiki/datetime/ > website, I get: > --- begin of copy-paste > Service Temporarily Unavailable > The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to > maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later. > --- end of copy-paste > Can you check the web server, please? My server crashed hard on Monday. I've moved to Linode but I haven't quite gotten everything running again. > Another question is: which is the earliest Perl version should we > target? Dave wanted to target 5.005 or maybe 5.004, but that was more > or less 10 years ago, when the 5.8 version was reigning supreme. But > now, we have reached 5.18 and > 5.14 is no longer officially supported. I'd say 5.8 or 5.10. Unfortunately, while p5p may only support 5.16+, there are still distributions in wide use like RHEL that use old Perls. -dave /*============================================================ http://VegGuide.org http://blog.urth.org Your guide to all that's veg House Absolute(ly Pointless) ============================================================*/
