On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 12:17:34AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 02-Jun-2002 Rocco Caputo wrote: > > (!!!) Perl 5.004 will eventually be deprecated. While Makefile.PL is > > fairly static, having to support ones for perl 5.004 and 5.005 or > > later is just the tip of the maintenance iceberg. > > What is the time frame for final deprecation? All my servers run 5.004_05 > and I don't have time to test thoroughly enough to do an upgrade. So > POE abandoning 5.004 will be painful for me. But then, you knew this.
There is no time frame for dropping 5.004 entirely. To be honest, as long as the makefile stuff is all that requires 5.005, I've got other things to worry about. A deprecation like that will require six to twelve months depending on how fast new versions can be released to CPAN. POE's general deprecation schedule looks like this: 1. Announce that an old feature is going away. Document replacements, and downplay the old feature in the manual. Release that to the CPAN. (wait at least 28 days to continue [1]) 2. Turn the old feature into a mandatory warning, but still support it. Release that to the CPAN. (wait at least 28 days to continue [1]) 3. Turn the old feature into an error. Release that to the CPAN. (wait at least 28 days to continue [1]) 4. Remove all documentation of the old feature. Eventually remove any vestiges of the old feature from the code base. [1] The usual pace of CPAN releases has slowed down deprecations to one step every two or three months. -- Rocco Caputo / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / poe.perl.org / poe.sf.net
