Hi Linda! On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 04:46:24 -0700 "Linda A. Walsh" <l...@tlinx.org> wrote:
> Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Hi all! > > do you think I was being unreasonable, or should I as a CPAN > > author/maintainer/adopter accommodate for people running old perl5s, in my > > case 5.10.x and below: > > > > > Going backwards it becomes more difficult to support an old version, > along with > older versions having fewer users. > > I tested some of my modules back to 5.8. I didn't test any on 5.6, as > it was > just too hard to build. If there was a clamor to support some of my modules > on 5.6, I might ask the reporter to do testing and try to see if I can > fix something. > 5.6 has become painful to build indeed. > Of course this implies only using a 'core perl' that worked on 5.6.x to > develop > extensions in -- another thing that might cause problems. > > Another issue -- how many years ago was the release? > see http://perldoc.perl.org/perlhist.html . > If it is old enough, it might be argued that it is hard to support some > things > on SW so old, it may have scores of unpatched bugs. > These bugs often don't get in the way of running the module and the tests. > Really though, I can't imagine that *one* answer would work for every > situation. > yes. > OTOH, if the user wants to add support for the old version, you might be > willing to merge the changes into your source? > see my replies on https://github.com/shlomif/perl-XML-SemanticDiff/issues/3 . > Just thinking... > > my 4 cents (used to be 2 -- inflation hit). > heh, Israel stopped minting 1 and 5 agoroth (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_new_shekel ) coins because they costed too much to produce. > -l -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ What Makes Software Apps High Quality - http://shlom.in/sw-quality I often wonder why I hang out with so many people who are so pedantic. And then I remember — because they are so pedantic. — an Israeli Perl Monger Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
