On 15 April 2010 21:32, Daniel Staal <dst...@usa.net> wrote: > > On Thu, April 15, 2010 4:09 pm, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > >> Honestly, if you're setting up a blank machine next week with less than >> 5.10, not finding Perl6::Say in the index is going to be the least of >> your problems anyway. But you should be able to purchase some >> complaint tokens if you really need them. > > I believe RedHat still ships with 5.8.8... (Not that I'd run RedHat by > choice if Perl were a consideration at all.) I don't know about others. > In general the larger and more commercial the vendor the further behind > I'd expect them to be.
Ubuntu long-term support is 8.04 and ships with 5.8.8 too. So there is a cost associated with deleting it. Is there a cost associated with leaving a single working version on CPAN? F > In general I'm for putting in a depreciated warning for some period before > final removal of any public API. > > Daniel T. Staal > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you > are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use > the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will > expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, > whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of > local copyright law. > --------------------------------------------------------------- > >
