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

On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 13:41:54 +0200
Xavier Noria <[email protected]> wrote:

> I’ve been out of the Perl community for many years, but to give you an
> example of the opposite trend, in Rails we drop support for old Ruby
> really fast. People need to move forward if they want to upgrade
> Rails (and culturally, they normally do).
> 
> Giving this example to subscribe something already said in this
> thread. If the project is yours, you set the rules, it’s your work
> and your time, so it is your call.

True but Perl people are used to the convenience of `cpan` installs.
And if it's in CPAN, people feel it should run in all versions of Perl,
even 5.6


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