On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 02:00:57PM +1000, Adam Kennedy wrote: > Michael G Schwern wrote: > > I'm going through some work to restore Test::More and Test::Harness to work > > on 5.4.5, minor stuff really, and I'm wondering if its worth the trouble. > > > > Has anyone seen 5.004_xx in the wild? And if so, were people actively > > developing using it or was it just there to run some old code and they > > were actually developing on a newer perl? > > I've seen it on occasion, and it's general on large old IRIX servers, > and similar aged things. CVS repositories and other boxes that have > provided the same services pretty much forever and have never had a > compelling reason to upgrade.
Some large financial companies are still using this version. > I guess the larger question for you is not should you support 5.004, but > would your abandonment of 5.004 cause a dependency cascade and cause > other modules that target 5.004 to lose their state as well. > > I'd say given the omnipresence of Test::Simple/More, stay 5.004 > compatible is it all possible. I would say that this cascade effect is precisely why you *should* drop 5.004 compatability. There's no excuse other than "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" for running such an archaic Perl. People should be encouraged to move to a more modern environment whenever possible. Ben
