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From:
Graham Barr
Date:
July 22, 2002 03:24
Subject:
Re: [PRE-RELEASE] Release of 0.0.7 tomorrow evening
Message ID:
20020722112109.O32547@pobox.com
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:14:15AM +0100, Sam Vilain wrote:
> "Sean O'Rourke" <sorourke@cs.ucsd.edu> wrote:
> 
> > languages/perl6/README sort of hides it, but it does say that "If you have
> > Perl <= 5.005_03, "$a += 3" may fail to parse."  I guess we can upgrade
> > that to "if you have < 5.6, you lose".
> 
> I notice that DBI no longer supports Perl releases <5.6.  Seems enough
> people are happy that 5.005 is obsolete.

I am not sure I agree with that. I have been met with a lot of resistance
from users todo the same with my modules. Some even still want 5.004,
but thats asking too much IMO.

Graham.
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