End of life for pre 5.6?

[Nicholas Clark]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:37:52AM -0500, Andy Lester wrote:
> 
> On Aug 21, 2008, at 10:34 AM, Ovid wrote:
> 
> > Since Schwern effectively ended Test::Builder support for pre 5.6  
> > releases of Perl, are we free to do the same?  I realize that there  
> > are some people out there who would care, but do we?  5.6 is what, 8  
> > years old now?
> 
> 
> I stand by the chromatic view: I'm not interested in making sure that  
> T::H runs on 5.6 since by definition people still on 5.6 are people  
> who don't upgrade.

If the plan is to drop pre 5.6, why not drop 5.6.x too, at least 5.6.1?
Because as Andy notes, people running 5.6 *also* aren't likely to upgrade,
and 5.6.x in turn has issues that are fixed in 5.8.0 (and better still 5.8.1)

Nicholas Clark