That the toolchain is switching to 5.8.1+ does not mean that people on 5.6 will no longer be able to install anything from CPAN. ExtUtils::MakeMaker has been bundled with every release of Perl 5, and the version that comes pre-installed with 5.6.x (EUMM 5.45 for Perl 5.6.(0|1) and EUMM 6.17 for 5.6.2) won't suddenly stop working.

If a Makefile.PL doesn't use any whizzy new EUMM features, it can thus happily continue to run on Perl 5.6. Even if it does; EUMM 6.72 can be downloaded and installed on Perl 5.6.x with no problems (perhaps EUMM 6.74 too, but no successful reports on CPAN testers yet).

So even though the toolchain is dropping Perl 5.6 support, people will be able to continue installing CPAN modules on Perl 5.6, provided module authors make the effort to support versions of Perl that old. The toolchain EOL is not the death-knell for Perl 5.6.

Personally there are very few of my CPAN releases I make the effort to support Perl 5.6 on. Type-Tiny and PerlX-Maybe are amongst them.

use Moops; class Cow :rw { has name => (default => 'Ermintrude') }; say Cow->new->name

In reply to Re^2: Stop suggesting to upgrade perl by tobyink
in thread Stop suggesting to upgrade perl by vsespb

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