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On 26 November 2010 12:26, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote: > The source code to perl is available. > There is no reason why the projects (or firms) can't support the older version > they need. Patch build fixes only. > > My comments here are really about who is paying. > > I'd argue that the external projects are expecting a lot for free. > Sure, it lowers *their* total cost if the volunteers maintaining the core > language never deprecate *anything*, but they are externalising costs, > because they don't contribute to helping bare the cost of this. ++ -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next