Dropping 5.5.x

[David Golden]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Andy Lester <andy at petdance.com> wrote:
> On Mar 11, 2009, at 1:40 PM, David Golden wrote:
>
>> (1) The case should be made on why we *should* drop it
>
> Because maintaining old code is technical debt.

(still with Devil's advocate hat)

But what's the "old code" in this case?

"Dropping 5.6 support" really means "allowing 5.8 features going
forward".  What features in 5.8 are worth *doing new work* to take
advantage of?  What things have we wanted to do are we stalling on
because they are "hard" without 5.8 features?

Just glancing through perl58delta: Unicode? PerlIO? ithreads? CLONE? -t flag?

Eric mentioned how in-memory files are useful in testing, and Ovid
asked why we weren't dropping 5.6 entirely.  If there was an actual
argument there, I sure didn't see it.

-- David