i have a different question: why do you care? there are reasons for people to use the older software for any software X you'll mention - you operating systems, office suites, programming languages/compilers, external libraries etc. etc. etc.
what is the point of pushing people? this sounds like the method of commercial companies - they want to sell the upgrades. what do you want to sell - course-grades? the basic idea of open source is to give the power to the users - including the power to stay with an older version of software if and when they see fit. if there was an assured (QA-wise) upgrade process that never broke things and was trusted by people - people might have considered these upgrades with a more favore. as long as this process has its cons - you'll have people that will simply refuse to upgrade until they have no choice - and sometimes even then. --guy Gabor Szabo wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Amir E. Aharoni > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have an answer to an opposite question: Why don't *i* use perl >> *earlier* than 5.10? Because it has features that save me so much >> work, that i prefer to invest some time in upgrading and not to keep >> dabbling with the older style. It's enough to mention named capture >> and smart match. I don't know why some people think differently. >> > > That's an interesting point something we need to stress more. > There are costs and risks involved with the upgrade of perl but there > are also costs and risks if you don't upgrade. Inspired by your comment > I tried to write them down on http://szabgab.com/blog/2009/10/1256905701.html > > but here are the main points: > > If you don't upgrade > > - You won't get community support for it and even commercial support > will cost more > than for a modern perl. > - Same with all the CPAN modules. > > - Development time will be longer that with newer perl as you won't be > able to use > the new features of perl and you won't be able to use many CPAN modules. > (e.g. Moose and Devel::NYTProf need 5.8.1) > > - Finding and retaining(!) *good* developers who want to work on code that is > using 5.6.x or older will be harder than finding developers to write > modern perl code. > > > any other ideas for reasons why to upgrade? > > Gabor > _______________________________________________ > Perl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
