On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, David Fetter wrote:
Last time I brought this up on the list there were some strong
disagreements about ending 7.3 support, but I don't see that happening
this time barring some insanely good reason I'm overlooking. :)
I know there are people who won't upgrade software. They get to stick
with old versions of everything, not just of some things.
I think it's pretty reasonable to expect people to use an old version of
DBD::Pg to match their old version of Postgres. However, it can be a real
pain if you can't *get* the old version anymore. CPAN only has the current
and next-most-recent version of DBD::Pg available:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DB/DBDPG/
At the moment that doesn't hurt me, but it has in the past when I had to
support a shop using Postgres 7.2 for far too long, and couldn't find a
source tarball of a matching DBD::Pg to put on a new machine. Sure, I may
be able to get it out of version control, with some effort and without the
certainty I'm dealing with the same code. But why not just leave the old
versions around where they're easy to get at?
I seem to recall CPAN has a limit of how many versions they let you keep
around. Two seems far too low. But in any case, if we can't increase the
number on CPAN, is there somewhere else we can keep them? I can provide
public space if it's needed.
Thanks,
Jon
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Jon Jensen
End Point Corporation
http://www.endpoint.com/
