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On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 6:45 PM Darren Duncan <darren@darrenduncan.net> wrote: > 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. > In this case (and similarly for 5.10.0) the 1 is unfortunately not arbitrary; 5.8.0 is horribly broken, and luckily did not find widespread usage. -DanThread Previous | Thread Next