Support for 5.005_03 [Was: about converters/p5-MIME-Base64 on perl 5.00503]

[Yen-Ming Lee]

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?

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Yen-Ming Lee [utf7:+Z05fZWYO] | KeyID:0x5EB52E51 | Taipei, Taiwan
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