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On 2021-06-27 3:31 p.m., Paul "LeoNerd" Evans wrote: > Existing modules: perl >= 5.16, for the most part. A few exceptions > exist for really high-river ones (e.g. List::Util, IO::Socket::IP) > but for most of these, taking 5.16 onwards means at least basic > support of try/catch, async/await, Object::Pad via syntax modules, > even though the signatures aren't yet available. > > I have so far not yet encountered a case where anyone cared about a > perl older than 5.16. DBI still cares about Perl from 5.8.1 and up; I recently asked and there are no plans to change this. Similarly, DBI wrappers like DBIx::Class also care about Perl 5.8.1. For my part, I plan to release brand new modules in that space, and on one hand since they're brand new I was thinking of just defaulting to the latest Perl version at the time eg 5.34 and then ratchet it down if people explicitly ask for that. On the other hand the oldest I would ever want to support is the same version that DBI itself does BECAUSE DBI itself does, and in theory any features I need from Perl were present in 5.8.1 and its just syntactic niceties that came afterwards. Except I would round to 5.8.0 because 1 seems arbitrary in my case. -- Darren DuncanThread Previous | Thread Next