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[VOTE]: drop support perl 5.6.1

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pgollucci at p6m7g8

May 15, 2008, 11:40 AM

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[VOTE]: drop support perl 5.6.1

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Can we please drop support for perl 5.6.1, it doesn't look like p5p is going
to even maintain it anymore.

We can keep 5.6.2 for now.

I have to jump through a large number of hoops to compile perl on freebsd 7/8
(aside from the gnu core utils bug which I don't have)

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fred at redhotpenguin

May 15, 2008, 11:46 AM

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Re: [VOTE]: drop support perl 5.6.1 [In reply to]

Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
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> Can we please drop support for perl 5.6.1, it doesn't look like p5p is
> going
> to even maintain it anymore.

+1

I agree with you in theory, but the only problem I see here is that
there are at least two shops I know of that still use 5.6.1. Worse,
they use patched versions of 5.6.1, so that is the main reason keeping
them from upgrading.

However, I think that it is reasonable to stop supporting perl 5.6.1.
If shops like that are going to upgrade mod_perl and not expect to
upgrade 5.6.1 to 5.6.2, the patch route is always available.

> We can keep 5.6.2 for now.
>
> I have to jump through a large number of hoops to compile perl on
> freebsd 7/8
> (aside from the gnu core utils bug which I don't have)
>
>
>
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> Philip M. Gollucci (philip[at]ridecharge.com)
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> http://riderway.com / http://ridecharge.com
> 1024D/DB9B8C1C B90B FBC3 A3A1 C71A 8E70 3F8C 75B8 8FFB DB9B 8C1C
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khera at kcilink

May 15, 2008, 11:58 AM

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Re: [VOTE]: drop support perl 5.6.1 [In reply to]

On May 15, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Fred Moyer wrote:

> I agree with you in theory, but the only problem I see here is that
> there are at least two shops I know of that still use 5.6.1. Worse,
> they use patched versions of 5.6.1, so that is the main reason
> keeping them from upgrading.

If they can't upgrade their perl, then they should have no expectation
to upgrade their mod_perl.

I say

+1

too.

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