Hi Shlomi It's been several years since I was last active in the Perl community, so take this with a good pinch of salt (I think 5.8 was new at the time) :)
That being said, I remember each module having a dependencies file with the minimum compatible perl version for that version of the module, which can keep older versions of perl on older versions of your module. I think we also need to consider the perl versions list http://www.cpan.org/src/ where 5.28 & 5.26002 are considered "in maintenance" & anything prior is considered "end of life". Do we have any visibility of which versions are most commonly in use at present? So I'd expect a perl module to work in current perl & a reasonable number of previous versions. Perhaps if the latest release fixes some major issues, it would be good to make it available a bit further back, but not all the way. Kind regards Steve/SRPATT On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 9:39 PM Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org> wrote: > Hi all! > > This post is a little flamebait, so please try to keep the discussion > civil. > > Anyway, after reading the discussion in this public github issue, and > following > some of the links (especially > > https://szabgab.com/what-does--if-it-aint-broke-dont-fix-it--really-mean.html > ), > do you think I was being unreasonable, or should I as a CPAN > author/maintainer/adopter accommodate for people running old perl5s, in my > case > 5.10.x and below: > > https://github.com/shlomif/perl-XML-SemanticDiff/issues/3 > > This reminds me of what chromatic wrote here - > https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/09/msg140206.html > : > > « > This is why we can't have nice things. > » > > Any comments or opinions? I think I'll relax by watching a nice and fun > video. > > -- Shlomi > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > http://is.gd/htwEXQ - Integrating GNU Guile into GNU coreutils > > Joel’s Generalisation: If it happens to you, it happens to everybody. > (Or: It’s never only you.) > — Based on http://www.joelonsoftware.com/news/20020402.html > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . >
