On 7/3/2011 6:40 AM, Barbie wrote:
On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 07:42:42PM +0900, Shmuel Fomberg wrote:
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.
Just to be clear: If I have a perl requirement of, say, 5.10 in my
META.yml, the
smokers will skip testing with all versions of 5.6 and 5.8?
What if the distribution is old and without a META.yml, but there's a
"require 5.6;"
line in the module? What happens then?
(My modules are currently 5.6 friendly, although I've been considering
bumping
that up to 5.10.)
-john
