# from Marvin Humphrey
# on Sunday 24 January 2010 06:15:
>> hard place: old client invents Makefile.PL from thin air
>
>Probably the fact that we require Perl 5.8.3 or above spares us from
> some of those.
Only if the super-retro users know that you require 5.8.3, which they
don't unless the
I think we now say "deprecated" but because there are people in your
situation, I don't see actually removing it for a while -- like around the
time that 5.10 is "standard" and 5.8 is rare.
David
On Jan 24, 2010 9:15 AM, "Marvin Humphrey" wrote:
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 08:26:06PM -0800, Eric Wi
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 08:26:06PM -0800, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> hard place: old client invents Makefile.PL from thin air
Probably the fact that we require Perl 5.8.3 or above spares us from some of
those.
> If you want to encourage these users to upgrade their CPAN.pm and/or fix
> their confi
