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On Monday 28 April 2008 18:20:30 Jan Dubois wrote: > On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Jesse Vincent wrote: > >>> Site configuration information for perl v5.6.2: > >> > >> 5.6. came out over 8 years ago. > >> > >> a: What's our policy on attempting to support it? > >> b: What's the diplomatic answer to the bug report as a result of > >> that? > > > > Would any list member who is still using Perl 5.6 in production > > please speak up? > > I don't have updated numbers, but for the period of January-May 2007 > there have been an average of 1000 Perl 5.6 and 4500 Perl 5.8 > downloads per day of the Windows binaries from the ActiveState > download servers. The relative percentage was the same for Linux and > Solaris, but with lower absolute numbers. > > I only got those numbers because the Komodo group was doing some > download stat analysis, so it isn't trivial for me to get more up-to- > date numbers (and they may not be representative for people trying > to compile Perl themselves anyways). Are these real people downloading stuff, or just bots? (There are a lot of bots out there that download stuff and check for copyright violatins and other doubtful things). I guess this is hard to check now, tho. All the best, Tels -- Signed on Mon Apr 28 18:59:50 2008 with key 0x93B84C15. View my photo gallery: http://bloodgate.com/photos PGP key on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or per email. "I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone." -- Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of the C++ programming languageThread Previous | Thread Next