RE: [PATCH v2 11/12] Require Perl 5.26.0

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rsbecker@nexbridge.com <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>

Date

Oct 23, 2024, 01:15 UTC

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<20241023004600.1645313-12-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>

On October 22, 2024 8:46 PM, brian m. carlson wrote:

>Our platform support policy states that we require "versions of

dependencies which

>are generally accepted as stable and supportable, e.g., in line with the

version used

>by other long-term-support distributions".  Of Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, and

SLES, the

>four most common distributions that provide LTS versions, the version with
>mainstream long-term security support with the oldest Perl is 5.26.0 in

SLES 15.6.

>
>This is a major upgrade, since Perl 5.8.1, according to the Perl

documentation, was

>released in September of 2003.  It brings a lot of new features that we can

choose

>to use, such as s///r to return the modified string, the postderef

functionality, and

>subroutine signatures, although the latter was still considered

experimental until

>5.36.
>
>This change was made with the following one-liner, which intentionally

excludes

>modifying the vendored modules we include to avoid conflicts:
>
>    git grep -l 'use 5.008001' | grep -v 'LoadCPAN/' | xargs perl -pi -e

's/use

>5.008001/require v5.26/'
>
>Use require instead of use to avoid changing the behavior as the latter

enables

>features and the former does not.
>
>Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>