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On Sat, 3 Jul 2021 22:15:54 +0200 Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. Ah - a useful data point. Can we presume from your response that there is a "negligible" long tail older than 5.16 then? Do you have some more detailed breakdown somewhere we can see? -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans leonerd@leonerd.org.uk | https://metacpan.org/author/PEVANS http://www.leonerd.org.uk/ | https://www.tindie.com/stores/leonerd/Thread Previous | Thread Next