Hi folks,
I've started a few conversations in the past year about pushing forward
the minimum Perl version of podlators, which is a "way upstream" package
with lots of transitive dependencies. In the v6.0.0 release, I pushed the
minimum Perl version forward to 5.12.
This broke a release process for brian d foy, resulting in the following
issue:
https://github.com/rra/podlators/issues/35
Some of this is my fault in ways that I can fix: I should have used an
alpha version (weirdly enough, I have somehow managed to be a core
maintainer for 25 years without using alpha versions, which is entirely on
me and I need to start), and I should have gotten announcements into a few
more places.
Some of this may be my fault in ways that I'm not willing to fix, but I'm
not sure.
Some of it makes me wonder if I misunderstood the previous discussions and
the implications of the Lyon Amendment for the usability of CPAN tools and
for what prerequisites have to be met before bumping the minimum Perl
version of way upstream packages to versions of Perl up to 5.16. I feel
like I'm hearing different things from different people, all of whom are
far more plugged in to the community than I am.
If folks would be willing to take a look at that issue, particularly folks
who were involved in some of these previous discussions, and let me know
if I have completely misunderstood or am barking up entirely the wrong
tree, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you!
--
#!/usr/bin/perl -- Russ Allbery, Just Another Perl Hacker
$^=q;@!>~|{>krw>yn{u<$$<[~||<Juukn{=,<S~|}<Jwx}qn{<Yn{u<Qjltn{ > 0gFzD gD,
00Fz, 0,,( 0hF 0g)F/=, 0> "L$/GEIFewe{,$/ 0C$~> "@=,m,|,(e 0.), 01,pnn,y{
rw} >;,$0=q,$,,($_=$^)=~y,$/ C-~><@=\n\r,-~$:-u/ #y,d,s,(\$.),$1,gee,print
