Re: Increasing podlators Perl dependency to 5.12

Hi Russ!

On Sat, 16 Mar 2024 18:22:13 -0700
Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
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> I wanted to provide some advance notice that I plan to increase the
> minimum Perl dependency for podlators (Pod::Man and Pod::Text) to 5.12
> from 5.10 in the next release.
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> When I bumped the minimum version in the 5.00 release, it came as a
> surprise to some other module maintainers due to the number of transitive
> dependencies.  Discussion at the time indicated that module-authors and
> cpan-workers would be the best mailing lists to provide a warning like
> this.
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+1 from me given https://github.com/shlomif/supporting-older-perl5-releases=
 .

Regards,

	=E2=80=94 Shlomi Fish

> If your package has a minimum Perl version less than 5.12 and declares an
> explicit versioned dependency on Pod::Man or Pod::Text (or the other
> less-used modules in the distribution), rather than using the versions
> that come with Perl, this may affect you.  Those versioned dependencies
> will create an implicit dependency on Perl 5.12.
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> The reason for the version bump is maintainability: there have been a lot
> of improvements in the core Perl language since 5.10, and I'm trying to
> slowly take advantage of of them in the podlators code to simplify it.  My
> goal is to eventually get to at least Perl 5.24 so that I can use postfix
> dereferencing.  In this release, I'm planning to switch to semantic
> versioning with the package MODULE VERSION syntax and a v6.0.0 version, as
> well as use autodie in the tests and other support code.
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> The next release of podlators is currently awaiting resolution of some
> groff compatibility issues that I'm discussing with the groff maintainers.
> I expect it to be ready in a couple of weeks, but my track record on
> accurate predictions is not great.
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