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On 1 Sep 2011 23:37, "George Greer" <perl@greerga.m-l.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, Konovalov, Vadim (Vadim)** CTR ** wrote: > >>> From: Steve Hay >>> On 1 September 2011 19:17, Konovalov, Vadim wrote: >>>> >>>> but it still gives a >>>> >>>> -1 >>>> >>>> from me :) >>>> although very minor one :) >>>> >>> >>> Looks like the consensus is to axe it, so I will initiate the Borland >>> Chainsaw Massacre in the next few days :-) >> >> >> ok, good, >> if I ever need borland+perl, I know where to find perl 5.005_xx version... :) > > > I'm sure no one would be upset if you volunteered to fix the Borland build for 5.16. That is, after all, why things get dropped: no one wants to put in the effort therefore it isn't important enough to keep anymore. > True, but I think it just isn't worth putting the effort in any more, given how old the compiler is. (It's quite telling that it was axing Windows 95 support that broke it...) Even a newer version probably wouldn't be worth supporting: there seem to be practically no users, and it's past its useful life anyway now that there are other free alternatives (which I think there weren't when support for it was first added).Thread Previous | Thread Next