Moin, On Sunday 02 April 2006 16:37, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni wrote: > Adam Kennedy wrote: [snip] > This is a little harder with Module::Build as it has a few dependencies > that ask 5.005 or 5.6, although in some cases incorrectly. I send > patches so modules like File::Temp or ExtUtils::Constant work with > 5.004 (and maybe earlier) but their author haven't yet released updated > versions. With these patches (and if the test suites of some of these > are fixed), several modules can probably work on 5.004 or earlier with > little to no changes.
OTOH, who still runs pre-5.8.x code deserves what they get. There are horrible bugs in older Perls, and I don't know why people still insist using insecure, buggy and feature-lacking code like 5.6. or even gasp 5.004. Just think "Unicode support", "hash randomization", "memory leaks". Using these older Perls means you basically show the hard-working Perl5-Porters that you don't care for their work in improving Perl. I know, now people will come out of the wood and say that they have that old system, and no, they can't upgrade Perl etc, never touch a running system etc yadda yadda. But what the heck do you then try to upgrade modules on said system when you didn't want to "touch the system"? Best wishes, Tels -- Signed on Mon Apr 3 18:28:11 2006 with key 0x93B84C15. Visit my photo gallery at http://bloodgate.com/photos/ PGP key on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or per email. "I'm not a vegetarian, but I eat animals who are" -- Groucho Marx
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