Re: Oldest supported Perl version

From: H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
Date: Apr 20, 2009, 21:07 UTC
Message-ID: <20090420230707.48f5f82c@pc09.procura.nl>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904201926531.6771@intel-tinevez-2-302>

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:29:03 +0200 (CEST), Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> 
> > * defined-or is available in any version of perl 5.8.x is the binary
> >   was built with the appropriate patch, which is available on my CPAN
> >   directory:
> >   ftp://download.xs4all.nl/pub/mirror/CPAN/authors/id/H/HM/HMBRAND/
> >   These patches still include the 'err' keyword
> 
> Do you realize how much _pain_ you cause here?

Me? Why? I just couldn't line *without* defined-or after I first encountered it, so I backported it to 5.8.x (after some patch from someone else) and people thought it would be a good idea to semi-officially allow it to be available for all.

Officially, defined-or is *NOT* available in perl-5.8.x. End of story.

*ALL* my production code expects defined-or to be available.

> I just do not have the _time_ to recompile Perl 5.8 for msysGit!

Sorry, I can't help you there

> Bah,
> Dscho "who thinks that a lot of people would not introduce dependencies 
> so lightly if they actually felt the pain they cause"

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