If, on the other hand, it won't work simply because the author decided to require some fancy, superficial feature like say....

"What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?" — Larry Wall

One person's superficial triviality is a feature that's been in Perl for more than six years now. How long before it's acceptable for volunteers who give away their code freely to use those features? Ten years? Fifteen? If I fix a bug in Perl today and it gets released in 5.20, will I be able to rely on that bug being fixed by 2024? 2029?

You don't have to upgrade Perl, but you don't have to use any modules I've written either. Even better—you don't have to use them as written. You are more than free to modify them to run on your preferred version. I'll even give you a comprehensive test suite so you can prove that they work to your satisfaction. You can even redistribute the modified version.

Is that not enough?

In reply to Re^4: Make $^V and "my" implicit by chromatic
in thread Make $^V and "my" implicit by gunzip

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