On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 07:42:42PM +0900, Shmuel Fomberg wrote: > 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"
Where does it say that? It's certainly not in any of the templates for the pages across cpantesters.org sites I've written. The only truth you can discern from those failures are that some testers had problems with the tests in their environment. It is then up to the reader to look closer and see whether it would be a problem for them. If a author chooses to ignore that version that's fine, it's their choice to support a minimum version. As you and others can witness, businesses (for whatever reason) do run older perls. The reports highlight to those people the problems they may encounter. New versions of distributions tested on older perls is still useful data to those businesses. > The point is that CPAN deprecation should lag behind Perl > deprecation policy. It does. Testers do upgrade over time. The oldest perl currently tested is 5.6.2, up until about 18 months ago we were still getting test reports for 5.5.x. While perl versions are still relavent in the wild, then I'm happy to see reports for them. Authors do not need to support older versions, and often the reports verify that distributions are no longer supported for a particular version of perl. As David stated, it's all just data. Cheers, Barbie. -- Birmingham Perl Mongers <http://birmingham.pm.org> Memoirs Of A Roadie <http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk> CPAN Testers Blog <http://blog.cpantesters.org> YAPC Conference Surveys <http://yapc-surveys.org> Ark Appreciation Pages <http://ark.eology.org>
