Question:
Are there any plans to sunset support for older Perl versions such as 5.8.x in
DBI in the foreseeable future or is the plan to continue to support 5.8.1+
indefinitely until something unforeseen thing prevents it?
Is there any information about how many people are actually still using 5.8.x
for example?
I ask because I plan to introduce new database-related CPAN modules and am
starting to think about what minimum Perl version I should support. By default
the answer would be 5.8.0+ because that doesn't exclude anything that DBI itself
supports. But if DBI later say decided to require 5.10.0+ or something else
newer than 5.8.x then I would likely follow suit. I don't actually need any
Perl features newer than what 5.8.0 provides, but I would leverage some for
cleaner coding if they were available.
Thank you for any insight.
-- Darren Duncan
