Developers of Sympa

[Guillaume Rousse <address@concealed>]

Le 10/03/2014 16:28, IKEDA Soji a écrit :
> There are many reasons.
>
> - Now 5.8.0 (*0) may not work appropriately.  5.8.4 (*1) is
>    difficult to install dependencies.  5.8.8 (*2) may work.
>
> - 5.10.1 (*3) bundles "parent" module and so on.
>
> - 5.12.0 or later provides new features including "switch".
>
> - ...
>
> So I feel comfortable to support Perl 5.10.1 or better and to
> abandon 5.8.x.
>
> This issue is NOT urgent, but which we may confront sooner or later.
This would also make installing Sympa on RHEL 5.x and clones (Centos, 
Scientific Linux, ...) really more difficult for many people, as perl 
5.10 is not available out-of-the-box for those platforms.
Redhat software collection effort 
(http://developerblog.redhat.com/2013/09/12/rhscl1-ga/) may eventually 
leverage this issue, but given the number of sysadmins who seems to be 
unable to even configure  alternative package sources as EPEL, I'm 
sceptic...

Basically, this is a trade-off between "what do we gain, as developpers" 
vs "how much effort will we have to educate our user base to handle the 
change". And I'm happily leaving this kind of decision for David :)
--
Guillaume Rousse
INRIA, Direction des systèmes d'information
Domaine de Voluceau
Rocquencourt - BP 105
78153 Le Chesnay
Tel: 01 39 63 58 31

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