You've got a point there. But on the other hand, what would you do? Wait another few years, and upgrade then? Or hope that whatever you do will become superfluous soon, or will be re-done from scratch?

Or spend years maintaining an abandoned perl version, working around myriads of Unicode bugs, memory leaks in closures and similar hassles?

The original questions shows that he is actively developing stuff, and slowly new versions of CPAN modules require higher minimal perl versions. Which means that you also have to start maintaining old versions of CPAN modules on your own.

Working around a broken environment is a daunting and time killing task. (I didn't program perl when 5.6.1 was state of the art, but from what I heard on various IRC channels it seems to be broken, compared by todays standards and compared to what's available today)

I don't know if there are viable solutions, but continuing to use old stuff certainly isn't very future proof, and the longer you wait the larger your system grows, and the hard it will become to upgrade in the end.

In reply to Upgrading perl (was: Re^3: How to define a package using a tweaked version of LWP::UserAgent?) by moritz
in thread How to define a package using a tweaked version of LWP::UserAgent? by pwolfenden

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