From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>,
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Oldest supported Perl version
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:58:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4087cc50904201258s4da6cb90rdc84e40c698a9798@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904202110350.6771@intel-tinevez-2-302>
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 14:11, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Michael Witten wrote:
>
>> It looks like 5.6.0 was released a DECADE ago. Drop it.
>
> What part of "causing others a lot of pain" did you not understand,
> exactly?
I'd say: Take your own advice.
It's very likely that requiring compatibility with a DECADE old perl
is going to cause others a lot of pain.
At some point, backward compatibility is just stupid; it's meant for TRANSITION.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-20 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-20 14:59 Oldest supported Perl version Jay Soffian
2009-04-20 15:40 ` [PATCH RFC3.5 04/12] send-email: Verification for --smtp-server and --smpt-server-port Michael Witten
2009-04-20 15:43 ` Oldest supported Perl version Michael Witten
2009-04-20 15:51 ` Jay Soffian
2009-04-20 16:18 ` H.Merijn Brand
2009-04-20 17:29 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-20 21:07 ` H.Merijn Brand
2009-04-20 17:59 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-04-20 18:27 ` Jay Soffian
2009-04-20 18:32 ` Jay Soffian
2009-04-20 18:40 ` Michael Witten
2009-04-20 19:11 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-20 19:58 ` Michael Witten [this message]
2009-04-20 21:10 ` H.Merijn Brand
2009-04-20 22:38 ` Michael Witten
2009-04-20 22:39 ` Michael Witten
2009-04-20 22:56 ` H.Merijn Brand
2009-04-21 3:08 ` Jeff King
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