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On Saturday 03 April 2004 05:18, Ovid wrote: > --- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am considering dropping support for Perl 5.6 in Devel::Cover. > > [snip] > > I realise that some people, especially those in a corporate environment > > may not be able to simply upgrade. > > That's the problem that I am facing at work. I see from glancing at the > CPAN that you've not deleted the older versions of Devel::Cover, so at > least people would have a fallback position, but I suspect that requiring > 5.8+ would seriously hamper the adoption of Devel::Cover. Later this > might be practical, but for now, I'd be concerned. While I see that 5.6.x is pretty usefull (low resource footprint - good for embedded usage), and I also see the "if it isn't broken, don't fix it" reason, I seriously question keeping v5.6.x around now that we have v.5.8.x getting strong and sound _and getting frequent releases (meaning you won't be stuck with bugs). At work I ditched v5.6 because I got segfaults with GMP, which didn't happened with v5.8 and I was so tired of hunting all these bugs in v5.6 that only happened there, and then work arund then without slowing the path for v.5.8 down, or even breaking it. There is a time when you have to abandon old stuff and just use the modern thing. I would be curious what the reason for v5.6 are - and if not most of them are of the "we are to lazy to upgrade", "we don't want to", "it always worked" etc :) v5.6.2 is sooo 2003 :) Cheers, Tels - -- Signed on Sat Apr 3 10:35:12 2004 with key 0x93B84C15. Visit my photo gallery at http://bloodgate.com/photos/ PGP key on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or per email. "If there was a battery you shoved up your ass for recharging, it would come in several sizes: A, AA, AAA, and AAAAAARGH!" -- mangu (126918) on 2004-03-13 on /. (http://tinyurl.com/2m7ml) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) Comment: When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl. iQEVAwUBQG55gncLPEOTuEwVAQHlSgf+JcS3GRiSt/LWpr9FCPvdGuSu/jZ1ZqSv Y8XSO6E/SIBYSgNEK8or6ir/BGxtK59VZtKxdzmREw2xSsyCDYcrSSXH/ovajmQq W3mXRSRunNRKdzM6hJxYkiAcJhNEjLMQD2htudqdmyigevraXm+j+BM9ISdlsArV 4y/UZZ6AVHZ5IPGzGs6EpDmRZ/LxvJZ9wqP7pkE9y8Aor0WURBBPB+IGUU+hZ2g6 NYTuspjT6QOlRfwcvLx0D4LHPGA/EE/L/q5nVzMvvSel6xdJS+nod1MK1aAS0KO/ WAVTCkuD8HDeetpXvlYOpDGd4AcsTI25USNB3O8/rhSDypHWjF//pQ== =KbBo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
