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

I have faced this question head-on with some of my modules.

My take is that there are many, many corporations version-locked to
specific "enterprise-grade" Linux distros, and stuck with system Perls
maybe as old as 5.10, and potentially stuck with security policies that
make solutions like perlbrew difficult.

I try (when I can), therefore, to keep at least one version of my modules
on CPAN that will run on 5.10 (5.8.8 sometimes), even if the default /
latest CPAN version needs something newer for full functionality or higher
performance or greater readability, or whatever.

I may be alone in this, also, but whenever I clean up my PAUSE distros, I
try to leave the $v.0 and the latest $v.$last versions of every module, for
every major version $v of that module. This is in case anyone has a module
(on or off CPAN) that has some kind of version locking in their deps.

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