On 2011/07/03 16:56, Serguei Trouchelle wrote:
Because it gives the feeling that we support them.
I think that there is someone who is running a smoker on Perl 5.6. do we
want authors to get error reports because some feature that they used
does not exists or was buggy on that version?
These reports clearly indicate that module is not supported on this
particular version and platform. I don't see how 100% of FAIL/UNKNOWN
reports can give someone the feeling of any support.
It says "the module is having problems on that platform, but we are
aware of it and it will be fixed. someday"
If the version does not exists, it says "what are you talking about? I
have never heard of that version".
I'm not advocating of throwing everything before 5.12, but I think that
version 5.8.9 if the earliest we should accept.
I know one Fortune 50 company who runs Perl 5.8.5 in production.
I know one that uses Perl 5.6. so?
The point is that CPAN deprecation should lag behind Perl deprecation
policy.
not to go in the other direction.
Shmuel.
