Although I can't prove I'm the same author as here, FWIW: The background is that I was curious about the issue perlancar was facing, found some additional info, and wanted to confirm to perlancar that the situation unfortunately doesn't look good, i.e. it really does look like Perl doesn't support generating the old format anymore and I didn't find a CPAN module either, hence the repetition of some of the points already stated. So it was meant to be cooperative but I do see how it might be interpreted as rude, so apologies to anyone who took it that way.

This is an appropriate reply, this is not.