From: J.H. Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 18:56:19 GMT Subject: Re: Gitweb caching: Google Summer of Code project Message-ID: <1212173779.26045.77.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: I would agree - lets try and shoot for 5.8 as a baseline minimum (there are lots of people who are slow to upgrade, and it would be nice to be able for them to make use of newer gitweb's on things like Centos / RHEL 4 - John On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 18:04 +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > 2008/5/30 Petr Baudis : > > > > Wow, and here I was wondering if requiring at least 5.6 was not too > > liberal. ;-) I believe 5.8 is the newest possible candidate though, it > > is still too widespread; e.g. Debian-wise, many servers run on Etch and > > are going to stay there even for quite some time after Lenny gets > > released. Heck, I still have accounts on plenty of Sarge machines. ;-) > > (Sarge seems to have Perl-5.8.4.) > > I think 5.8.2 is a good _minimum_ perl to support. Before that one, > Unicode support is next to null (5.6 and below) or too buggy, and > gitweb needs that.