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From:
Todd Rinaldo
Date:
July 5, 2020 18:49
Subject:
Re: Perl 7 - updates
Message ID:
E2CB1B6B-2290-49B4-9D88-8EB6C9F38F9E@cpanel.net
> On Jul 5, 2020, at 12:39 PM, Philip R Brenan <philiprbrenan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If it cannot run all of CPAN, out of the box, by default, now and forever, with no tweaking whatsoever, then I cannot say that it is Perl: it must be another language. If I have to port all of my CPAN modules to another language, then it probably should be some-other language.
>
That ship has already sailed. @INC changes, Perl deprecations, etc. have already broken parts of CPAN and do not compile or install on 5.32.0. The breaks to date have admittedly been minimal but that is mostly thanks to parts of CPAN being updated to accommodate the changes in Perl.
Todd
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