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}


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