On 03/12/2014 12:10, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
>> Likely in antique versions of debian and Redhat (which again will have >> bigger issues), there surely must come a time when the line is drawn and say >> - you're unsupported from this_date, give them plenty of notice, I think 12 >> months notice is plenty of time for planned upgrades or devise workarounds, >> SA is not updated all that often, so a next major release would be about 12 >> months away, short of a serious exploit found anyway, so there's plenty of >> time for lazy admins to do what they actually get paid to do :) > Well, I also can't justify requiring a newer version of Perl just for one > regexp. > > Regards, > KAM Sure, if that was truly the case nor would I, but if you are running that old perl, there is plenty of stuff thats outdated, and not all of the goodness gets backports, not just with perl, but with most other things.
