Hi Lars,
thanks for your comprehensive and informative reply.
On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 10:23:50 +0200
Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ 迪拉斯 wrote:
> I have read the posts linked in your message.
>
> > should I as a CPAN author/maintainer/adopter accommodate for people
> > running old perl5s
>
> It's your choice.
On Sat, 11 Aug 2018, Shlomi Fish wrote:
Hi all!
This post is a little flamebait, so please try to keep the discussion civil.
Anyway, after reading the discussion in this public github issue, and following
some of the links (especially
Shlomi Fish wrote:
Hi all!
do you think I was being unreasonable, or should I as a CPAN
author/maintainer/adopter accommodate for people running old perl5s, in my case
5.10.x and below:
Going backwards it becomes more difficult to support an old version,
along with
older versions having
I’ve been out of the Perl community for many years, but to give you an
example of the opposite trend, in Rails we drop support for old Ruby really
fast. People need to move forward if they want to upgrade Rails (and
culturally, they normally do).
Giving this example to subscribe something already
On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 13:41:54 +0200
Xavier Noria wrote:
> I’ve been out of the Perl community for many years, but to give you an
> example of the opposite trend, in Rails we drop support for old Ruby
> really fast. People need to move forward if they want to upgrade
> Rails (and culturally, they
Hi,
On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 09:33:59 +0100
Stephen Patterson wrote:
> Hi Shlomi
>
> It's been several years since I was last active in the Perl community, so
> take this with a good pinch of salt (I think 5.8 was new at the time) :)
>
> That being said, I remember each module having a
On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 4:39 PM Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> This post is a little flamebait, so please try to keep the discussion
> civil.
>
> Anyway, after reading the discussion in this public github issue, and
> following
> some of the links (especially
>
>
I have faced this question head-on with some of my modules.
My take is that there are many, many corporations version-locked to
specific "enterprise-grade" Linux distros, and stuck with system Perls
maybe as old as 5.10, and potentially stuck with security policies that
make solutions like
I have read the posts linked in your message.
> should I as a CPAN author/maintainer/adopter accommodate for people
> running old perl5s
It's your choice. You are in charge of the software, so you get to
decide. I'm certain that's how it's been generally handled in past, too.
Are you asking to
Hi Shlomi
It's been several years since I was last active in the Perl community, so
take this with a good pinch of salt (I think 5.8 was new at the time) :)
That being said, I remember each module having a dependencies file with the
minimum compatible perl version for that version of the module,
On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 13:41:54 +0200
Xavier Noria wrote:
> I’ve been out of the Perl community for many years, but to give you an
> example of the opposite trend, in Rails we drop support for old Ruby really
> fast. People need to move forward if they want to upgrade Rails (and
> culturally, they
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