[Dbix-class] Performance degradation due to Class::C3

[Toby Corkindale]

On 14 June 2011 22:40, Peter Rabbitson <rabbit+dbic at rabbit.us> wrote:
> Toby Corkindale wrote:
>> On 9 June 2011 17:51, Jorge Gonzalez <jorge.gonzalez at daikon.es> wrote:
>>> BTW, thanks for resurrecting a 3 month old thread :-) I had not checked
>>> the EOL status of 5.8 and 5.10. And then again: RHEL 6 is based on 5.10,
>>> which is also EOL'ed...?
>>
>> Yes, only the current and prior-to-current versions are supported by
>> the Perl developers.
>> So it'll be up to Red Hat themselves to patch any problems in 5.10 if
>> they turn up.
>
> Just a note that by "perl developers" you (I hope) mean the
> perl5-porters. Individual perl projects can and do elect to support
> a much wider range of available perl binaries. For example DBIC
> is currently supported all the way back to 5.8.1, and there are no
> near-future plans to change this.

Ah, sorry if that wasn't clear - yes, I meant the "Perl core"
developers, not the DBIx::Class developers.

BTW, I have a hard time believing that anyone who is still stuck on
something antique like Perl 5.8.1 would be allowed to use latest
versions of DBIx::Class.