Re: 1) Datetime website 2) recommended practice to alter API

On Fri, 27 Sep 2013, Jean Forget wrote:

> When I try to access the http://datetime.perl.org/wiki/datetime/
> website, I get:
> --- begin of copy-paste
> Service Temporarily Unavailable
> The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to
> maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.
> --- end of copy-paste
> Can you check the web server, please?

My server crashed hard on Monday. I've moved to Linode but I haven't quite 
gotten everything running again.

> Another question is: which is the earliest Perl version
> should we target? Dave wanted to target 5.005 or maybe 5.004,
> but that was more or less 10 years ago, when the 5.8 version
> was reigning supreme. But now, we have reached 5.18 and
> 5.14 is no longer officially supported.

I'd say 5.8 or 5.10. Unfortunately, while p5p may only support 5.16+, 
there are still distributions in wide use like RHEL that use old Perls.


-dave

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