I think you misunderstood me. I could've made dbm-deep work with 5.0.0, if I'd really wanted to. But, I didn't want to work harder on backwards-compatibility than I was working on features. I have enough problems maintaining OS-compatibility, as it is. So, I chose to put a hard-demarcation in. I could've easily chosen 5.008 instead of 5.006.

Once that demarcation was chosen, that freed up certain features for use. But, the line wasn't chosen for the features - it was chosen for the personal sanity. And, "use 5.006;" says exactly what it needs to say "This software is only going to work with this version or higher".

Now, granted, this discussion is starting me down the road of "I need to document the why behind this assertion in the POD" and I now will. Sometimes, my good friend, you make me think too much! :-)

My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

In reply to Re^4: Don't use 5.6.N (why guess?) by dragonchild
in thread Don't use 5.6.N by xdg

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