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• Commented on Upping minimum version for Devel::Cover
  Let's not forget that Devel::Cover is a 100 % developer's tool. You don't need it on the system you're deploying your code to. So upping the required Perl version for Devel::Cover will not influence the requirements of your production code,...
• Commented on P6SGI: Perl 6 Web Service Gateway Interface
  This post sparked some very interesting discussion in #perl6 which should be considered before implementing this proposed API: http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2015-08-03#i_10994607...

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• Sterling Hanenkamp commented on P6SGI: Perl 6 Web Service Gateway Interface

  In summary, so far, the comments are that some would like a slightly higher level API for this, which I believe can be resolved in the reference implementation, similar to what Plack does. It has been suggested that apps always be written in terms of Promises, which will break the existing pre-P6SGI implementations, but that's likely to be just fine. And no one has yet come up with a good name for the PSGI reference implementation yet. It is named, but the name sucks.

• Aristotle commented on Upping minimum version for Devel::Cover

  So the question to ask is not: "who is still using 5.6.1 for production code" but "who is developing on 5.6.1 and has only 5.6.1 available on that machine?".

  So you check code coverage on e.g. 5.22 on your dev machine and that’s good enough to deploy to some other perl version(s) in production…?

• Joel Maslak commented on Upping minimum version for Devel::Cover

  If you can't support the 5.6, I'd up the version number, so some poor sod doesn't try installing non-working code on 5.6. If someone wants to fix it, let them, but I wouldn't advertise it as supporting something it doesn't (the version number does that).

• Paul Johnson commented on Upping minimum version for Devel::Cover

  A big thank-you to everyone who has taken the time to comment on this. I am surprised and gratified that people think it important enough to spend some time on.

  Ultimately, I believe I would like to leave the commit as it is, and remove support for Perl versions below 5.8.1. My reasons are as follows:

  1. I understand the argument for not removing the old code but I would not feel happy leaving the pre-5.8.1 code in place even with the explicit declaration that it is not supported. I can support it now, even though it is not particularly easy to do so. I could probably con…