End of life for pre 5.6?

[Eric Wilhelm]

# from Ovid
# on Thursday 21 August 2008 08:34:

>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?
>
>What are the pros and cons of this?

The main con is that anyone running some smokes against older perls 
cannot use the new harness features to do it.

We should be able to test with a perl which isn't the one running 
TAP::Harness though.  I'm not sure if there's any coverage for that 
case since the last time I messed with xt/perls/.

Given the ability to run 5.6 tests from a harness running in 5.10, 
there's not a lot of reason to provide new features in the harness for 
5.6.

--Eric
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