On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 08:40:02AM +0900, Shmuel Fomberg wrote:
> On 2011/07/03 1:02, David Cantrell wrote:
> >>Oh, and by the way, can someone make the server reject report from
> >>ancient Perl versions?
> >Why?
> Because it gives the feeling that we support them.

No it doesn't.  It merely tells people "this code works on 5.6" (or
doesn't).

> 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?

I don't test just for authors.  I test for users too.

Authors who don't care about older versions of perl can easily ignore
those reports.

-- 
David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice

In this episode, R2 and Luke weld the doors shut on their X-Wing,
and Chewbacca discovers that his Ewok girlfriend is really just a
Womble with its nose chopped off.

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