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On 06/10/2013 10:26 AM, Salvador Fandino wrote: > ----- 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 >> 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. Yes. And they're paid to do so[1]. In the end, though, if you're doing the work, you get to choose to support more than you have to. I have absolutely no problem with that. :) --Steffen [1] Yes, so is RedHat, but at least they're giving back to Perl some. There are some RedHat people active on this list. I'm not aware of many commercial Unix vendors speaking up here, specifically not when it comes to feeding back patches. Just one exception comes to mind.Thread Previous | Thread Next