On 12/2/2014 10:59 PM, Noel Butler wrote:
On 03/12/2014 12:10, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
Likely in antique versions of debian and Redhat (which again will
have bigger issues), there surely must come a time when the line is
drawn and say - you're unsupported from this_date, give them plenty
of notice, I think 12 months notice is plenty of time for planned
upgrades or devise workarounds, SA is not updated all that often, so
a next major release would be about 12 months away, short of a
serious exploit found anyway, so there's plenty of time for lazy
admins to do what they actually get paid to do :)
Well, I also can't justify requiring a newer version of Perl just for
one regexp.
Sure, if that was truly the case nor would I, but if you are running
that old perl, there is plenty of stuff thats outdated, and not all of
the goodness gets backports, not just with perl, but with most other
things.
I can't fight every windmill and changing how distros work re: versions
of perl is one I choose not to battle.
Regards,
KAM
