On Tue, Jul 16, 2024, at 3:58 AM, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 07:30:59PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > > 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. > > One of the arguments during the discussion in Lyon was that continuing > to support old version like 5.10 implies that a lot of specialized > code needs to be kept to work around Perl bugs that have been fixed > decades ago. > > Another argument (I don't remember if it was made then) is that people > who refuse to update their code, insist on upgrading the environment > around it, and demand that their code keeps working unchanged, are > pushing the maintenance burden on everyone else but themselves.
I would add that if maintaining support for older versions is something that makes your open source work less enjoyable, maybe you're better off dropping support. If you taking on the burden of someone else's failure to upgrade detracts from your enjoyment of the project, you may be less likely to keep contributing in future. I would rather see a focus on maintaining our maintainers. If you find yourself less motivated to work on this code then nobody wins. Olaf -- Olaf Alders 📮 o...@wundersolutions.com 🚀 https://prettygoodping.com
