Re: The end of 5.6 is nigh!

David Golden <[email protected]>
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On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Michael G Schwern <[email protected]> wrote:
> By which I mean, the next major release of Test::More (aka Test::Builder1.5)
> will support 5.8.1 and up.  ExtUtils::MakeMaker will probably go that way,
> too.  This effectively cuts off most of CPAN from 5.8.0 and down.  This will
> happen in the next few months.

Thank Schwern!  It's about time.

I look forward to the jump to 5.10.1 in a couple years, so we can
finally rely on configure_requires in the toolchain.  (And it will be
nice to stop bundling version.pm clones with toolchain distros, too.)

-- David
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