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Re: testing new code on old perl (Score:1)

by kid51 (5328) on 2006.07.03 19:13 (#48527) Homepage Journal

I don't think you have to feel too guilty about not getting it to work on pre-5.6 Perl. Of my CPAN modules, the only one where I've tried to make it pre-5.6-compatible is ExtUtils::ModuleMaker -- and there only because I took over maintenance from its original author. Places that are still running pre-5.6 are, IMHO, likely to be as skeptical about installing new CPAN modules as they are about upgrading Perl -- so they would be unlikely to install Sub::Exporter for production purposes in any event.
Let's just hope that such places permit their developers to install the latest Perl at least for development purposes. Those developers are your target audience.

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