David Cantrell wrote:
It didn't want to install on 5.6.2 (unless anyone screams and tells me
it's a stupid idea, I think that telling authors when their modules don't
work on older perls is a Very Good Thing) because of a long dependency
chain down to some utf8 wossnames. The fix was to manually install an
[been offline for a while, so sorry for lag]
I heartily applaud your decision to test with 5.6.2. For a while I had
5.005_04 and 5.6.[0-2] in working order for testing, but then at some
point I appear to have hosed them somehow. They were a bit of a bastard
to set up and the idea of spending the time to straighten it all out
again gives me the phear.
There is surprisingly little syntactic difference between 5.6 and 5.8. I
had 5.6.0 running in production for over 18 months before I encountered
a problem that gave me cause to upgrade (and even then, if I was really
stuck, I could have worked around it). Then again, I wasn't doing Unicode.
Yes, 5.6 is positively ancient, but I'm glad to see people still taking
the time to exercise it.
David
