Dropping 5.5.x

David Golden xdaveg at gmail.com
Wed Mar 11 21:54:12 GMT 2009


On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Nicholas Clark <nick at ccl4.org> wrote:
> ie this is an argument against worrying about whether the current version
> of Test::Harness or any other CPAN module runs on 5.6.anything or
> 5.005_anything, because all that really matters in those situations is
> that the core will build at all, to run the modules it shipped with back then.

I was implying that a modern T::H would be backported into 5.6.3, but
rather posing whether anyone in p5p really cares enough to keep 5.6
moving forward.  I have a hard time imagining there would ever be a
5.6.3.  I could imagine a 5.8.10 (even though 5.8.9's release notes
suggest it's not likely).  I see that issue as a good threshold
trigger for deciding on what should or shouldn't be supported.

-- David


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