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On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > Which had been deprecated for about 10 years. The warning was new. I'm in favor of adding the warning, but wouldn't want to see the feature actually removed until there is a demonstrated need for that. It is my understanding that this is the current policy. > > Please avoid deprecations. Always. > > Your explanation of the problems is valid, but you can avoid the deprecations > by not upgrading. > > Why did you upgrade your systems to 5.12? It sometimes happens that old servers die, and you can no longer build very old versions of Perl on the replacement server, which will come with a new version of the OS. So yes, it is obviously a case of poor planning not to be prepared for certain disasters, but it does happen in the real world even when nobody likes to admit that it happened to them personally. :) Cheers, -JanThread Previous | Thread Next