Uprgrading perl versions can require OS upgrades if your sysadmins say so. It can also require significant testing burden because code optimized to 5.8 doesn't run cleanly under 5.10 or above. And then there is the question of modperl 1 vs modperl 2 vs fastcgi and module deps. I have seen 12 month efforts to upgrade. It is not that simple.
-- Rob Kinyon (Mobile) This message may contain confidential information. Please delete it if you are not the intended recipient. On Jun 17, 2011, at 2:53, Toby Corkindale <t...@dryft.net> wrote: > On 14 June 2011 22:40, Peter Rabbitson <rabbit+d...@rabbit.us> wrote: >> Toby Corkindale wrote: >>> On 9 June 2011 17:51, Jorge Gonzalez <jorge.gonza...@daikon.es> wrote: >>>> BTW, thanks for resurrecting a 3 month old thread :-) I had not checked >>>> the EOL status of 5.8 and 5.10. And then again: RHEL 6 is based on 5.10, >>>> which is also EOL'ed...? >>> >>> Yes, only the current and prior-to-current versions are supported by >>> the Perl developers. >>> So it'll be up to Red Hat themselves to patch any problems in 5.10 if >>> they turn up. >> >> Just a note that by "perl developers" you (I hope) mean the >> perl5-porters. Individual perl projects can and do elect to support >> a much wider range of available perl binaries. For example DBIC >> is currently supported all the way back to 5.8.1, and there are no >> near-future plans to change this. > > Ah, sorry if that wasn't clear - yes, I meant the "Perl core" > developers, not the DBIx::Class developers. > > BTW, I have a hard time believing that anyone who is still stuck on > something antique like Perl 5.8.1 would be allowed to use latest > versions of DBIx::Class. > > _______________________________________________ > List: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbix-class > IRC: irc.perl.org#dbix-class > SVN: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/bast/DBIx-Class/ > Searchable Archive: http://www.grokbase.com/group/dbix-class@lists.scsys.co.uk _______________________________________________ List: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbix-class IRC: irc.perl.org#dbix-class SVN: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/bast/DBIx-Class/ Searchable Archive: http://www.grokbase.com/group/dbix-class@lists.scsys.co.uk
