On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 13:16, David Golden <xda...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason > <ava...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 06:39, Andreas J. Koenig >> <andreas.koenig.7os6v...@franz.ak.mind.de> wrote: >>> Unfortunately perl 5.6.2 doesn't build OK anymore on my linux smoke box. >>> It spews out warnings about signals and this is why I have no 5.6.2 >>> smoker. If somebody knows how to work around this, I'm willing to smoke >>> 5.6.2 again. >> >> Have you tried building the maint-5.6 branch from Git instead of the >> 5.6.2 release? > > In my github repo (git://github.com/dagolden/perl.git) I have a > maint-5.6.2 branch as well as maint-5.x.y for everything from 5.6.1 to > 5.8.8. > > Personally, I see no value in testing anything before 5.6.2 and only > minimal value even testing that now that 5.12 is the "current" > production release.
There are still modules like YAML::Syck (that I and toddr now maintain) which maintain 5.6 compatibility. Having smokers on 5.6 is a valuable service for them. Having smokers on releases that aren't the latest on their branch is also valuable. Some people still run 5.6.*, 5.8.*, 5.10.* with * != 2, 9 & 1. E.g. Module::Install recently broke on <=5.8.3. A lot of modules are doing "use 5.006", or "5.008", while really only being compatible with 5.6.2 or 5.8.8. Holding them to it is a useful service.
