Hi Paul!
Thanks for the reply.
On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 09:56:44 -0400
Paul Bennett <paul.w.benn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have faced this question head-on with some of my modules.
>
> My take is that there are many, many corporations version-locked to
> specific "enterprise-grade" Linux distros, and stuck with system Perls
> maybe as old as 5.10, and potentially stuck with security policies that
> make solutions like perlbrew difficult.
>
I see - in that case I suppose they can afford to either pay me, say 100 USD
per dist per year, so I'll support older versions of perl there - and for
everyone, or alternatively do the backporting work themselves. And in both
cases, stop complaining.
Regards,
Shlomi
> I try (when I can), therefore, to keep at least one version of my modules
> on CPAN that will run on 5.10 (5.8.8 sometimes), even if the default /
> latest CPAN version needs something newer for full functionality or higher
> performance or greater readability, or whatever.
>
> I may be alone in this, also, but whenever I clean up my PAUSE distros, I
> try to leave the $v.0 and the latest $v.$last versions of every module, for
> every major version $v of that module. This is in case anyone has a module
> (on or off CPAN) that has some kind of version locking in their deps.
>
> --
> P/PW/PWBENNETT
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