--As of April 8, 2009 7:58:33 PM -0500, Dave Rolsky is alleged to have said:
I, as a module author providing you a free product, don't have to give a
damn. Realistically, authors give some amount of damn, but maybe not a
full "I'll support Perl 5.004 for the poor slobs using ancient Red Hat
boxes".
Personally, my target is generally the two most recent major releases.
Once 5.10 had been out for a while, I stopped testing my modules against
5.6. For new modules, I've been using 5.8-isms.
--As for the rest, it is mine.
Point taken. I just hate the attitude that it's too old to bother thinking
about at all, especially if they are dismissing versions currently being
distributed as 'current' by major vendors. (Which was the case, when they
were dismissing 5.8.8.)
(And the 5.4 is ancient _Sun_ boxen. The ancient RedHat are running 5.8.0
;) )
Daniel T. Staal
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