We have also just released a new version of Dancer2 which fixes a few notable errors on our part that required 5.10 without noticing.
I think Peter (SysPete) deserved a big ++ here on all the work he did on it: * https://github.com/PerlDancer/Dancer2/issues/1096 * https://github.com/PerlDancer/Dancer2/issues/1097 * https://github.com/PerlDancer/Dancer2/pull/1098 On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 11:48 PM, Darren Duncan <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2015-12-31 8:29 AM, Warren Young wrote: > >> On Dec 31, 2015, at 8:20 AM, Warren Young <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> I think we’re either going to have to hold off on D2 for some time, or >>> as you say, try to get the Xslate plugin backported to 5.8. >>> >> >> It turns out that fixing this is a one-liner: >> >> https://github.com/rsimoes/Dancer2-Template-Xslate/pull/7 >> >> A wish to use //= on a single line in the plugin is a pretty silly reason >> to require Perl 5.10. :) >> > > Indeed. > > In my experience, the most common reasons that Perl code would require a > version over 5.8 is due to wanting to use some new syntactic features such > as that, and that instead sticking to the syntax 5.8 has would not change > the code very much. > > There are other, deeper features of Perl versions over 5.8 that make them > worth upgrading to, but often code incompatibilities aren't due to people > needing these things, and so for that code it should still support 5.8. > > Bottom line, if a Perl module/script you depend on requires a higher Perl > version number than you have, don't just take that at face value but look > into it and you may often find that tweaking this module's source is indeed > the easiest path. > > -- Darren Duncan > > > _______________________________________________ > dancer-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.preshweb.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dancer-users >
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