Hi, On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 09:33:59 +0100 Stephen Patterson <st...@patter.me.uk> wrote:
> Hi Shlomi > > It's been several years since I was last active in the Perl community, so > take this with a good pinch of salt (I think 5.8 was new at the time) :) > > That being said, I remember each module having a dependencies file with the > minimum compatible perl version for that version of the module, which can > keep older versions of perl on older versions of your module. > yes, http://dzil.org/ should have provided that, but some end-users complained that the specified minimum of 5.12.x was too high for them. > I think we also need to consider the perl versions list > http://www.cpan.org/src/ where 5.28 & 5.26002 are considered "in > maintenance" & anything prior is considered "end of life". Do we have any > visibility of which versions are most commonly in use at present? > There are some surveys, but they are voluntary and it is hard to know with the darkpan. > So I'd expect a perl module to work in current perl & a reasonable number > of previous versions. Perhaps if the latest release fixes some major > issues, it would be good to make it available a bit further back, but not > all the way. Yes. > > > Kind regards > Steve/SRPATT > > > On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 9:39 PM Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org> wrote: > > > Hi all! > > > > This post is a little flamebait, so please try to keep the discussion > > civil. > > > > Anyway, after reading the discussion in this public github issue, and > > following > > some of the links (especially > > > > https://szabgab.com/what-does--if-it-aint-broke-dont-fix-it--really-mean.html > > ), > > do you think I was being unreasonable, or should I as a CPAN > > author/maintainer/adopter accommodate for people running old perl5s, in my > > case > > 5.10.x and below: > > > > https://github.com/shlomif/perl-XML-SemanticDiff/issues/3 > > > > This reminds me of what chromatic wrote here - > > https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/09/msg140206.html > > : > > > > « > > This is why we can't have nice things. > > » > > > > Any comments or opinions? I think I'll relax by watching a nice and fun > > video. > > > > -- Shlomi > > > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > > http://is.gd/htwEXQ - Integrating GNU Guile into GNU coreutils > > > > Joel’s Generalisation: If it happens to you, it happens to everybody. > > (Or: It’s never only you.) > > — Based on http://www.joelonsoftware.com/news/20020402.html > > > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Chuck Norris/etc. Facts - http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/ <rindolf> buu: do you have a functional spec? An architecture document? An interface whitepaper? A developer’s guide? A user manual? A “The BL Book” and “BL — The Program”? <buu> rindolf: no, no, no no and no Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
