What is this, National Perl Appreciation Day or something? This is great!
Useless in practice for me; I write for CPAN, so I have to stay backward-compatible at least to 5.6. But a nice taste of what I'll start doing in 2015 or so.
Useless in practice for me; I write for CPAN, so I have to stay backward-compatible at least to 5.6. But a nice taste of what I'll start doing in 2015 or so.
Could your audience also be limited by the fact that your modules are IRC bots and bindings to XML parsers that already have bindings? :)
Anyone who hasn't upgraded Perl 5 in eight and a half years seems unlikely to install new software.
I would only aim to support 5.8.9, 5.10.1, and 5.12.2, and at this point I don't know of anyone still using 5.8, so I just stick with the two most modern versions.
When 5.14 is released, it will really be time to kiss 5.8 goodbye.
I would draw the line at 5.10 for "serious production stuff" and 5.12 for anything else. If you can't use the second oldest version, you can write your own code.