On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Jesse Luehrs <d...@tozt.net> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 06:04:32PM +0200, Olivier Mengué wrote: >> I'm Warnocked about my Moose patch. >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warnock%27s_dilemma >> >> 2012/9/21 Olivier Mengué <olivier.men...@gmail.com> >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > From the base.pm >> > documentation<http://perldoc.perl.org/base.html#DESCRIPTION>: >> > >> > >> > Unless you are using the fields pragma, consider this module discouraged >> > in favor of the lighter-weight parent . >> > >> > From the parent.pm >> > documentation<http://perldoc.perl.org/parent.html#HISTORY> >> > : >> > >> > This module was forked from base to remove the cruft that had accumulated >> > in it. >> > >> > parent.pm is a 30 lines pure Perl dual module available also in core >> > since 5.10.1. >> > >> > >> > So I've done the work to replace all "use base" with either "use parent" >> > or "use parent -norequire => ". Most changes are in lib/Class/ and t/. >> > The code is here: >> > https://github.com/dolmen/p5-Moose/commits/topic/base-to-parent >> > (branch topic/base-to-parent at git://github.com/dolmen/p5-Moose.git) >> > >> > I've yet not touched the 'benchmark' directory to avoid breaking reference >> > values. Tell me if I should go further... > > I'm not sure I see the benefit here, at least as long as we're still > supporting 5.8. Is there a particular reason you're interested in this > change?
Technically we dropped official support a year ago. However we also stated we wouldn't go out of our way to break 5.8 compat without a good reason. (I wrote a blog post about it at the time http://chris.prather.org/future-moose-support.md.html) So yeah we'd really need some justification for bumping the minimum version of Moose from 5.8.3 to 5.10.1 because we have known users who are still on 5.8.x and it would be a shame to cause them pain for a change that (seemingly) doesn't provide anything beyond what we currently have. -Chris
