Re: Let's bump the minimum Perl version to 5.8

From: Brian Gernhardt <brian@gernhardtsoftware.com>
Date: Sep 24, 2010, 18:03 UTC
Message-ID: <078307FA-6A50-4615-B4C8-4DB2CF3E301F@gernhardtsoftware.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimNGZom6FfKivg=QNmovz=xf656XHbXCmsjfrxD@mail.gmail.com>

On Sep 24, 2010, at 10:08 AM, Tor Arntsen wrote:

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> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 15:32, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 13:08, Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no> wrote:
>>> 5.8 as minimum is probably for the best. It's not that just you can
>>> compile a newer version (5.8), more importantly, Perl 5.8 is available
>>> as a package from those semi-official 3party repositories for most
>>> systems (at least the *nix systems I have access to)
>> 
>> Do those repositories also have 5.10 and 5.12?
> 
> Anything later than 5.8 seems to very unusual except for Linux (and
> presumably *bsd).

Based on www.opensource.apple.com, OS X started having 5.8 in OS X 10.3.0.  (And has only had 5.10 starting with 10.6.)  I don't know if macports or fink still support older OS X versions, so likely a 5.8 requirement would make anyone OS X older than 10.3 build perl-5.8 from source.

Just FYI, ~~ Brian