Wither 5.4? (was Re: Tapping CPAN testers)

[Eric Wilhelm]

# from Gabor Szabo
# on Tuesday 18 September 2007 15:11:

>Maybe it would be better solved in CPAN.pm ? It might be able to know
>which is the latest version of every module that runs on a particular
>version of perl (proved by having a successful test report for that
>version) and install that?

In the larger view, we *should* have some way to freeze the CPAN 
repository from the POV of a given version of Perl, and then only add 
security fixes ala the Debian sarge/etch/lenny progression.

That would allow individual authors to end-of-life their own modules, 
etc.

--Eric
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