Wither 5.4? (was Re: Tapping CPAN testers)

[Gabor Szabo]

On 9/18/07, Michael G Schwern <schwern at pobox.com> wrote:
> Considerations:
>
> 1)  We use qr// a lot and I'm afraid of what the regexes will look like
> without it.  And then there's the possible performance hit. [1]
>
> 2)  Test::Harness not supporting 5.004 effectively end-of-life's 5.4.
>
> #2 is a big consideration.  OTOH MakeMaker doesn't support anymore 5.4 either
> and I've probably let 5.5isms slip into Test::More so it's effectively already
> done.

Do we really need to take care of this?
Will people using 5.004 ever attempt to use the latest and greatest of
Test::Harness?

I don't think we should be seeing this as "end-of-life". So users of
5.4 won't be able
to upgrade Test::Harness. Then what?

See my further notes here:
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=639569

Gabor