Re: [Number::Format] Release 1.60 (was Release 1.52)

[Bill W. <bi...@wa...>]

Now that I think about it - I am pretty sure that when I did 1.51 I
had several locale related bugs to fix, and I fixed them and decided
not to try to support older versions of Perl.  From the Format.pm
code, it says:


# Due to differences in the locale system Perl 5.8 is required for
# this module to function properly.  You may be able to get it to work
# on older Perls by uncommenting this line, but it is not supported.
# I recommend you either upgrade Perl or download an older version of
# this module in that case.
require 5.008;


That said, if someone wants to make the effort to ensure compatibility
with older versions, that's fine with me...


On 9/19/06, Jonas B. Nielsen <jo...@gm...> wrote:
> Well,
>
> Shouldn't we aim for backwards compability to the extent possible or
> can you say now that handling locales are not worth the effort prior
> to 5.8?
>
> jonasbn
>