On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 9:45 PM Todd Rinaldo <todd.rina...@webpros.com> wrote:
> *From: *Leon Timmermans <faw...@gmail.com> > *Date: *Thursday, July 25, 2024 at 2:31 PM > *To: *Todd Rinaldo <todd.rina...@webpros.com> > *Cc: *Philippe Bruhat (BooK) <b...@cpan.org>, Russ Allbery < > ea...@eyrie.org>, module-authors@perl.org <module-authors@perl.org> > *Subject: *Re: Guidance on the implications of the Lyon Amendment > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 8:24 PM Todd Rinaldo <todd.rina...@webpros.com> > wrote: > > I continue to wonder if there’s value in setting this up. Who needs 5.6 or > 5.8, etc. so desperately that we need to maintain this stream? How do we > know when they don’t need it? > > > > >Module::Build::Tiny hasn't been installable on a clean 5.8 for over a > year (because CPAN::Meta::Requirements now requires 5.10) and I >didn't get > any emails/tickets about it; so it doesn't appear to be very alive. I'm > expecting 5.10 to be very different though (because RHEL >6). > > > > RHEL 6 and 7 are VERY dead. People are actively scrambling to get off > them. I would expect that things like updating from CPAN are very much off > people’s radar. > I wish that were true, but my most recent interaction with RHEL 6 was this morning. Leon
