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

[Erwin Lansing]

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


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