On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Michael G Schwern <schw...@pobox.com> wrote: > It's that time again! Time when I hammer the last few nails in the coffin of > a version of Perl. > > By which I mean, the next major release of Test::More (aka Test::Builder1.5) > will support 5.8.1 and up. ExtUtils::MakeMaker will probably go that way, > too. This effectively cuts off most of CPAN from 5.8.0 and down. This will > happen in the next few months. > > Test::More might nudge its requirement a little higher depending on just how > difficult it is to work around early threading bugs in the earlier 5.8 > releases. > > At this point I don't imagine this will cause too much disruption. There > aren't many serious 5.6 users left and whomever is left has to have already > come up with some sort of 5.6PAN solution. > > Dropping 5.6 will ease maintenance and testing of these modules and make a > greater baseline of core modules available. However, if a company or > organization would like to see 5.6 compatibility retained, they can contact me > about sponsoring the extra work for continued maintenance. > > Thanks to Sarathy and rgs for some great and long lived releases! It's been a > good eight years.
I've come around your hammering lately and had this idea: Cannot CPAN add logic to avoid downloading your new versions on older releases? This is for EUMM and now Test::Builder. 5.6.2 still is the fastest perl around. As long as you keep making it slower and fatter you have to come up with some kind of practical solution. -- Reini Urban http://cpanel.net/ http://www.perl-compiler.org/
