On 14 June 2011 22:40, Peter Rabbitson <rabbit+d...@rabbit.us> wrote: > Toby Corkindale wrote: >> On 9 June 2011 17:51, Jorge Gonzalez <jorge.gonza...@daikon.es> wrote: >>> BTW, thanks for resurrecting a 3 month old thread :-) I had not checked >>> the EOL status of 5.8 and 5.10. And then again: RHEL 6 is based on 5.10, >>> which is also EOL'ed...? >> >> Yes, only the current and prior-to-current versions are supported by >> the Perl developers. >> So it'll be up to Red Hat themselves to patch any problems in 5.10 if >> they turn up. > > Just a note that by "perl developers" you (I hope) mean the > perl5-porters. Individual perl projects can and do elect to support > a much wider range of available perl binaries. For example DBIC > is currently supported all the way back to 5.8.1, and there are no > near-future plans to change this.
Ah, sorry if that wasn't clear - yes, I meant the "Perl core" developers, not the DBIx::Class developers. BTW, I have a hard time believing that anyone who is still stuck on something antique like Perl 5.8.1 would be allowed to use latest versions of DBIx::Class. _______________________________________________ List: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbix-class IRC: irc.perl.org#dbix-class SVN: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/bast/DBIx-Class/ Searchable Archive: http://www.grokbase.com/group/dbix-class@lists.scsys.co.uk