Nicholas Clark wrote in perl.pod-people : > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 08:56:30AM -0800, Sean M. Burke wrote: >> So I got to thinking -- I could easily backport this, i.e., easily change >> this code to run under older Perls, so that the decent number of people >> still labouring with 5.005 installs of perl could at least have a nice >> modern perldoc if they wanted it. >> >> Can anyone see any reason not to do this? > > If it's easy for you to do, and you're up for it, go for it. I think that it > would be a good idea.
You could even provide a patch against perl 5.6.1. Backporting perldoc myself scares me.
