From: "Matt Kettler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 03:26 PM 1/4/2005 +0100, Per Jessen wrote: > >Ray Anderson wrote: > > > > >> What is the best approach with stuff like this - should I > > >> simply carry on and > > >> open a bugreport or is best to bring it up here first? > > >> > > > > > > I tried to deal with this one and got told to upgrade, which I cannot do at > > > this time. > > > >Same here. I was hoping that the 2 and 3 branches would live parallel > >lives for > >a while. > > Highly unlikely, largely due to lack of developer resources. SA has enough > of a devel team to support their existing projects, but supporting older > versions would draw away from their efforts. Keeping ahead of spammers is > tough. Keeping ahead of spammers and trying to work on a 2.6 version, which > has to run on an obsolete version of perl few of the developers have any > experience with, in parallel with the 3.0 version, is even harder.
It all comes from their using an obscure language for developing their splendid tool. "Perl? That's for necklaces!" ---->>>>>>> --->>>>> Exit stage right full speed! {O,o}