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From:
H.Merijn Brand
Date:
February 8, 2013 15:25
Subject:
Re: Perl 7 or Perl 2013?
Message ID:
20130208162456.541f6e79@pc09.procura.nl
On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 15:10:29 +0000, Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 11:00:31PM +0100, Alexander Hartmaier wrote:
> > My feeling is that p5p cares too much about backward compatibility!
>
> No we don't. I for one would be extremely annoyed if half my admin scripts
> stopped working (or silently started misbehaving) just because I updated
> my OS, which happened to include a newer bundled perl version.
>
> > Old code will run on old Perl versions, they won't stop doing that when a new
> > a new Perl version is released!
>
> But very soon, old perls stop building on new platforms.
Why? I really try hard to make sure modern perl builds on nearly-dead
OS's I have access to.
> > And if there is an easy way to have more than one Perl version on a server,
> > and with perlbrew that problem is solved, you shouldn't care!
> > Put a note about how to install the old version in parallel to the new one
> > in the release notes and be done!
>
> Brillant! "We've broken all your code, but its your fault because you
> didn't read the release notes carefully enough!"
DaveM++ !! :)
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