Re: Guidance on the implications of the Lyon Amendment

From: Leon Timmermans <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, July 25, 2024 at 2:31 PM
To: Todd Rinaldo <[email protected]>
Cc: Philippe Bruhat (BooK) <[email protected]>, Russ Allbery <[email protected]>, [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Guidance on the implications of the Lyon Amendment
On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 8:24 PM Todd Rinaldo <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I continue to wonder if there’s value in setting this up. Who needs 5.6 or 5.8, etc. so desperately that we need to maintain this stream? How do we know when they don’t need it?

>Module::Build::Tiny hasn't been installable on a clean 5.8 for over a year (because CPAN::Meta::Requirements now requires 5.10) and I >didn't get any emails/tickets about it; so it doesn't appear to be very alive. I'm expecting 5.10 to be very different though (because RHEL >6).

RHEL 6 and 7 are VERY dead. People are actively scrambling to get off them. I would expect that things like updating from CPAN are very much off people’s radar.

Which leaves you with Perl 5.32 as far as supported RedHat  8 goes.

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=redhat