Schwern announcing he no longer supports 5.5

http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130717.html

Specifically, he states

The consequences of this change are that 5.5 is effectively end-of-lif
+ed.
Without MakeMaker or Test::More support most modules cannot be install
+ed.
Eventually modules will start to use new features of Test::More and Ma
+keMaker
and 5.5 users will be unable to upgrade.  The upside is that this de-f
+acto
releases everyone else from having to support 5.5.  If one part of the
+ chain
won't work there's no point in putting effort into the rest.
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My criteria for good software:

Does it work?
Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

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Re: Schwern announcing he no longer supports 5.5 by perlfan (Parson) on Nov 19, 2007 at 20:21 UTC
That's his prerogative. If the need is there, someone will take care of it...isn't that how the whole OSS thing works? update: now I can't get that damn Bobby Brown song out of my head! ;-)	[reply]
Re: Schwern announcing he no longer supports 5.5 by diotalevi (Canon) on Nov 20, 2007 at 01:16 UTC
So? He's just one guy. Someone else could make stuff work on 5.5. Not me though. I'm writing things that aren't even backwards compatible to 5.8. ⠤⠤ ⠙⠊⠕⠞⠁⠇⠑⠧⠊	[reply]
Re: Schwern announcing he no longer supports 5.5 by Burak (Chaplain) on Nov 20, 2007 at 21:05 UTC
Everyone expects that famous "someone" will fix everything. I wonder who can this be? :)	[reply]