Closed SysPete closed 3 years ago
:+1:... Very enthusiastically!
While I have no empirical proof, I suspect this affects a very small subset of our uses. 5.8 is 19 years old already! It's time to put support for it out to pasture. As it is, 5.10 is almost 15 years old... I think that is plenty far back for us to support. Especially given the useful features we get from making it or minimum version. Let's make this happen!
I support it as well :+1: @SysPete Please check if we mention the minimum Perl version in the docs and adjust if needed.
I've removed all mention of use of Perl < 5.10 from docs, and removed special-casing, as per updated initial comment. Docs do not specifically mention minimum Perl version, but that should show on metacpan due to MIN_PERL_VERSION
in generated Makefile.PL
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Thanks again! Sorry for the delay.
We can no longer install on 5.8 due to upstream dependencies, so I think it is time to admit defeat and bump our min dep. This also allows us to use defined-or and state variables.
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