* If you don't give a fig about some version of perl like 5.6.1, then specify "use 5.006002" in your PL files
Why would I want to go re-release all the modules under my care, many of which no longer have maintainers, often because they've died (literally), to quiet noise from an illegitimate use case? A bot unable to use my module is not a legitimate use case.
These are the *same* dependencies that end users will need to know. If you release code that isn't clear about these, then you are potentially *wasting people's time* figuring out why your modules don't work on their system.
I question whether there is ACTUAL wasting of people's time, not potential. I also suspect that anyone still on 5.6.1 is well aware of how to tell when and why things don't work on their systems.
As to baby/bathwater, I've had zero baby from automated smoke bots as far as I can remember. It's been 100% bathwater. Maybe to someone else, the idea that a module fails under 5.6.1 is a problem, but not me.
As a side note: If someone set up a smoke bot on Windows that I could send a release of ack or Mech to before I release it, I would gladly pay that bot's owner some amount of cash money every time I used it. THAT is the sort of supply that I have demand for.
I'm not disputing that the smoke bots are useful. I just want choice rather than having results shoved at me unwanted. Surely that's not unreasonable.
xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance
