Front page | perl.perl5.porters |
Postings from July 2021
On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 12:32 AM Paul "LeoNerd" Evans < leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> 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. > About 1 in 6 users of cpanm is using 5.16 (which generally means RHEL7), any dist dropping that would affect a serious number of users. It is a de-facto watershed. LeonThread Previous | Thread Next