Quoting that link from wikipedia:
End-of-life is a term used with respect to a retailed product, indicating that a vendor will no longer be marketing, selling, or promoting a particular product and may also be ending or limiting support for said product.
We cannot stop marketing and selling perl 5.004 as we never did that. Recently I have not seen many people promoting that version of perl either. Does 5.004 or anything below 5.6.0 really still have support?
Is 5.6.0 supported?
What about 5.8.x< 5.8.8 ?
We are not a corporation that needs to End of life a a version of Perl.

It is nice that you make the effort to support old versions of Perl but I think we as a community should not have this as an expectation.

In reply to Re^2: The need and the price of running on old versions of Perl by szabgab
in thread The need and the price of running on old versions of Perl by szabgab

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