Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 14:46:33 +0800 From: Yen-Ming Lee <leeym@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Support for 5.005_03 [Was: about converters/p5-MIME-Base64 on perl 5.00503] Message-ID: <20060106064633.GA67302@utopia.leeym.com> In-Reply-To: <20051221131100.GZ63964@droso.net> References: <20051221062909.GA93715@utopia.leeym.com> <43A91FC2.3010009@protey.ru> <20051221123849.GA39303@utopia.leeym.com> <20051221131100.GZ63964@droso.net>
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--dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=big5 Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 02:11:00PM +0100, Erwin Lansing wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 08:38:49PM +0800, Yen-Ming Lee wrote: > > > > I tried your suggestion about devel/p5-XSLoader, and it works. > > Thanks for looking into this. I wasn't too happy to remove support for > 5.005_03 from this port, but couldn't find an easy way around it. > > > > However, I agree that we should review our supporting policy for old perl. > > > I personally don't care much about 5.005_03 anymore. There's just too > much that doesn't work with it anymore and it's easy for people to > install perl from ports, also on 4.x. I think people really should > consider moving to 5.8.7. Even 5.6.x is quite old now, 5.0x goes back to > the stone age. Keeping support for the rest of the 4.x lifetime will be > too big a PITA. > > If we can agree on this (or something else), it may be a good idea to > publish this somewhere so the rest of the world knows this. > > -erwin If we can (or wanna see if we can) stop supporting perl 5.005_03, what should we do next? -- Yen-Ming Lee [utf7:+Z05fZWYO] | KeyID:0x5EB52E51 | Taipei, Taiwan --dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iQCVAwUBQ74SScnMx0NetS5RAQLp2AP+Ir0bgFatNFjAO37xUuHVnKOiPRP1W6Sc FG2hhUbY5IHvjFGqp0vOAzHdMwWNgUG5vmEJ03TCcGG0ZwuvFVHr6p3C6Ie7f/EG D87zYY/TF1r300SpSKkWLUtzb8subPAVDRkzWGWF6dlzcwF7l55z2zFWDSCdp8gb d7zfMH/jVc8= =RVDh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx--
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