On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 01:02:37AM -0800, Darren Duncan wrote:
> Does that policy apply to commercial operating systems as well,
> where people may choose to run older OSs on purpose, but may want to
> run newer Perl? For example, lots of Mac OS X Snow Leopard installs
> out there, and it came with Perl 5.10.1. In contrast, Mac OS X
> Mavericks comes with 5.16.2. Or should we expect people in that
> situation would install their own Perl if they want newer Moose? --
> Darren Duncan
I would say yes. The fact that Mac OS 10.6.8 (which I run on my primary
development box at home) only has perl 5.10.1 is not relevant given that
there is a newer version of the OS (10.9) available.
Also note that any change in the minimum supported Perl version is not
likely to have any effect on the *actual minimum version required*, at
least in the short term. We will generally continue to accept patches for
older Perls, so long as they do not hinder current or future development.
I would expect Moose to continue to work on perl 5.8.x as long as all its
dependencies also continue to do so.
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