From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:08:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Oldest supported Perl version
Message-ID: <20090421030848.GF14479@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <76718490904200759l24e1bd9exe0e1b60f7b2847a7@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:59:00AM -0400, Jay Soffian wrote:

> Whatever is decided this time, perhaps it should be burned into the tops of
> the *.perl scripts (i.e. "require 5.008;"). It should also be added to
> CodingGuidelines. You know, so this conversation doesn't keep recurring. :-)

I have no real comment on _which_ version, but yes, I think a 'require'
for the right version would be very helpful. The error messages you get
when running on a too-old version can be confusing, at best. Saying "you
need a newer perl" would be much nicer.

-Peff