[RANT] Should we try to keep compatibility with old perl5s?

Hi all!

This post is a little flamebait, so please try to keep the discussion civil.

Anyway, after reading the discussion in this public github issue, and following
some of the links (especially
https://szabgab.com/what-does--if-it-aint-broke-dont-fix-it--really-mean.html ),
do you think I was being unreasonable, or should I as a CPAN
author/maintainer/adopter accommodate for people running old perl5s, in my case
5.10.x and below:

https://github.com/shlomif/perl-XML-SemanticDiff/issues/3

This reminds me of what chromatic wrote here -
https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/09/msg140206.html :

«
This is why we can't have nice things.
»

Any comments or opinions? I think I'll relax by watching a nice and fun video.

	-- Shlomi

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