in reply to XML::Simple needs to go!

there's probably some legacy code depending on it
There are 402 "Distributions Which Depend on XML-Simple", according to the Reverse dependencies link on XML::Simple. There is no way to know how many more private codebases rely on XML::Simple.

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Re^2: XML::Simple needs to go!
by Preceptor (Deacon) on Dec 21, 2015 at 16:24 UTC

    Yes, to be expected really. I know it's not realistic that it 'go away'. Practically speaking, once things have legacy 'tails' they tend to keep them.

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