Re: Dropping 5.5 support from my modules.
[email protected] (Slaven Rezic)
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Michael G Schwern <[email protected]> writes: > Why make this change now? I've always been frustrated at being hamstrung from > using "new" features of perl. The Perl Survey results is what pushed me over > the edge. [1] Only 6% of the respondents say they used 5.5.x as their > *minimum* version of Perl in the last year and 0.5% said 5.5.x was their max. > As we didn't get specific about what they used those versions for, I suspect > there's a lot of CPAN testers that reported it as their min. I rarely get bug > reports from actual 5.5 users, they're almost always from CPAN testers. Thus, > it's not a large enough population for me to spend my unpaid time and effort > on and to delay new features. There are exactly *two* CPAN testers using 5.5.x. And at least one of both did not specify 5.5.x at all at the perlsurvey. I find 6% surprisingly high. Isn't perl supporting operating systems with a much lesser popularity? Regards, Slaven -- Slaven Rezic - slaven <at> rezic <dot> de tkruler - Perl/Tk program for measuring screen distances http://ptktools.sourceforge.net/#tkruler