We have also just released a new version of Dancer2 which fixes a few notable errors on our part that required 5.10 without noticing. I think Peter (SysPete) deserved a big ++ here on all the work he did on it: * https://github.com/PerlDancer/Dancer2/issues/1096 * https://github.com/PerlDancer/Dancer2/issues/1097 * https://github.com/PerlDancer/Dancer2/pull/1098 On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 11:48 PM, Darren Duncan <darren@darrenduncan.net> wrote:
On 2015-12-31 8:29 AM, Warren Young wrote:
On Dec 31, 2015, at 8:20 AM, Warren Young <wyml@etr-usa.com> wrote:
I think we’re either going to have to hold off on D2 for some time, or as you say, try to get the Xslate plugin backported to 5.8.
It turns out that fixing this is a one-liner:
https://github.com/rsimoes/Dancer2-Template-Xslate/pull/7
A wish to use //= on a single line in the plugin is a pretty silly reason to require Perl 5.10. :)
Indeed.
In my experience, the most common reasons that Perl code would require a version over 5.8 is due to wanting to use some new syntactic features such as that, and that instead sticking to the syntax 5.8 has would not change the code very much.
There are other, deeper features of Perl versions over 5.8 that make them worth upgrading to, but often code incompatibilities aren't due to people needing these things, and so for that code it should still support 5.8.
Bottom line, if a Perl module/script you depend on requires a higher Perl version number than you have, don't just take that at face value but look into it and you may often find that tweaking this module's source is indeed the easiest path.
-- Darren Duncan
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