On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 02:00:57PM +1000, Adam Kennedy wrote: > I've seen it on occasion, and it's general on large old IRIX servers, > and similar aged things. CVS repositories and other boxes that have > provided the same services pretty much forever and have never had a > compelling reason to upgrade. > > I guess the larger question for you is not should you support 5.004, but > would your abandonment of 5.004 cause a dependency cascade and cause > other modules that target 5.004 to lose their state as well. > > In my case, that's just Config::Tiny, which I got a patch for a while > ago to make it 5.004 compatible. > > I'd say given the omnipresence of Test::Simple/More, stay 5.004 > compatible is it all possible.
At the moment things are holding together. The only real hurt is not having qr//, but fortunately my regexes are small. Other than that there's just the wild assortment of minor bugs to deal with. Fortunately now that I have a working 5.4.5 on my OS X laptop I can seriously test against it again. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern ROCKS FALL! EVERYONE DIES! http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp05032002.shtml
