I’ve been out of the Perl community for many years, but to give you an example of the opposite trend, in Rails we drop support for old Ruby really fast. People need to move forward if they want to upgrade Rails (and culturally, they normally do).
Giving this example to subscribe something already said in this thread. If the project is yours, you set the rules, it’s your work and your time, so it is your call. -- Sent from Gmail Mobile