On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:21:09AM +0100, Graham Barr wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:14:15AM +0100, Sam Vilain wrote: > > "Sean O'Rourke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > languages/perl6/README sort of hides it, but it does say that "If you have > > > Perl <= 5.005_03, "$a += 3" may fail to parse." I guess we can upgrade > > > that to "if you have < 5.6, you lose". > > > > I notice that DBI no longer supports Perl releases <5.6. Seems enough > > people are happy that 5.005 is obsolete. > > I am not sure I agree with that. I have been met with a lot of resistance > from users todo the same with my modules. Some even still want 5.004, > but thats asking too much IMO.
Chip Salzenberg has (re)started work on a new maintenance release of 5.005 (ie 5.005_04). I think Tim Bunce said that the problem with DBI still supporting 5.005 was that 5.005_03 refuses to build on some current versions of OSes (such as the current stable FreeBSD). I think he implied (on p5p - check the archives) that if 5.005 maintenance made 5.005 work better, then he'd reconsider. In October 2000 I believed that 5.005 maintenance *is* important for the acceptance of perl6, and I still do now: http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00977.html Nicholas Clark
