A reading from Moose::Manual::Support: As of version 2.00, Moose officially supports being run on perl 5.8.3+. Our current policy is to support the earliest version of Perl shipped in the latest stable release of any major operating system (this tends to mean CentOS). We will provide at least six months notice (two major releases) when we decide to increase the officially supported Perl version. The next time this will happen is in January of 2012, when Moose 2.06 will increase the minimum officially supported Perl version to 5.10.1.
The docs go on to elaborate that "support" just has to do with how much time we'll spend on on bug fixes. "We" promise to spend time trying to fix it if we accidentally require 5.12, but not if we accidentally require 5.10. Further, we'll probably accept a patch restoring working order on 5.8. "We" just don't promise to write it. CentOS 6 is still 5.10.1, presumably making 5.10.1 the oldest officially supported version of perl. CentOS 7 is expected to ship soon, and contains 5.14. I'm guessing that there will still be something shipping 5.12 in stable, though. Anybody know? We should find out and prep an update to the support document to be applied when that happens. -- rjbs
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