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Re: The end of 5.6 is nigh!

From:
David Cantrell
Date:
November 15, 2011 03:59
Subject:
Re: The end of 5.6 is nigh!
Message ID:
20111115115853.GA25973@bytemark.barnyard.co.uk
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:33:17PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On 2011.11.13 8:39 AM, Reini Urban wrote:
> > I've come around your hammering lately and had this idea:
> > Cannot CPAN add logic to avoid downloading your new versions on older releases?
> Yes, but it is non-trivial.
> It would requiring creating a new index which supplies modules and versions
> for every release (aka tarball and zip) instead of just the latest one.
> Various folks are working on that, it is a key piece of missing information.
> ...
> There have also been approaches which use CPAN testers data to select the last
> compatible version.  Contact Dave Cantrell about that.

cp5.6.2an.barnyard.co.uk

And yay for killing off 5.6 support.  CP5.6.2AN will, of course,
continue to support it, as its versions of Test::More and
ExtUtils::MakeMaker will get stuck at whatever is the last version to
pass their tests.

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