Michael G Schwern wrote:
I'm going through some work to restore Test::More and Test::Harness to work
on 5.4.5, minor stuff really, and I'm wondering if its worth the trouble.
Has anyone seen 5.004_xx in the wild? And if so, were people actively
developing using it or was it just there to run some old code and they
were actually developing on a newer perl?
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.
Adam K
