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Gerard Goossen
Date:
December 10, 2009 03:51
Subject:
Re: PATCH: partial [perl #58182]: regex case-sensitive matchingnow utf8ness independent
Message ID:
20091210115059.GB3799@ggoossen.net
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 05:21:54PM -0500, jesse wrote:
> [...]
> 
> That issue is fixable if we CPAN a version of "feature.pm" designed for
> older releases of Perl, but it gets increasingly hard to keep "legacy"
> directives synced between the differing realities of different Perls'
> concepts of "legacy".

Publishing "legacy" shouldn't be too much of a problem. If we add for
each directive, a version number in which it is introduced and
optional a version number where the directive is stopped being
supported, using this to decide what to do would be easy.

Gerard Goossen
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