Dropping 5.5.x

[David Golden]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Michael G Schwern <schwern at pobox.com> wrote:
> Anyhow, we need some data.  I propose that we get some.  Put a simple bit of
> code into the Makefile.PL that says "I see you're using 5.6.x.  We're
> considering dropping support because we don't think there's any real 5.6 users
> left out there.  If you use 5.6 in production, please follow this URL:
> http://survey.schwern.org/perl_version?perl_version=5.6.x;module=Test::Harness"
>
> Put a beep and a sleep after it and only show it to 5.6 users so that it has a
> chance of being noticed in all the normal build noise.  Using a simple URL
> instead of an email makes it dead simple for someone to respond to the poll,
> they don't even need to formulate an email.

Heh.  Just make sure you wrap it in "if (! $ENV{AUTOMATED_TESTING}) {
... }" or you'll make BinGOs think his smokers are having seizures.
:-)

-- David