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----- Original Message ----- > From: Steffen Mueller <smueller@cpan.org> > To: Salvador Fandino <sfandino@yahoo.com> > Cc: Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org>; "perl5-porters@perl.org" <perl5-porters@perl.org> > Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 7:30 AM > Subject: Re: Storable refactoring, was Re: [perl #118139] Storable in DESTROY blocks > > On 06/09/2013 08:13 PM, Salvador Fandino wrote: >> BTW, how about 5.005? does still make sense to support such old perl > version? > > No. 5.005 has jumped the shark. > > Frankly, I consider 5.6.X to be so old that supporting it is purely a > courtesy to those contributors known to rely on such an outdated release > (for whatever questionable reason). > > As far as I am concerned, even 5.8.X support becomes optional about a > year after RedHat/CentOS drop support for versions of their > distributions that ship with 5.8. All the world's not Linux! AFAIK, perl 5.8.4 is distributed as the system perl in Solaris 10 and Solaris 11 is still supporting that version too. I guess there are some other Unix vendors still supporting such old Perl versions.Thread Previous | Thread Next