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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc0

From
brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date
Apr 22, 2014, 22:25 UTC
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On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 03:11:48PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Another possibility would be to require Perl 5.8.9 or newer.  It was
> released in 2008.

RHEL 5 and CentOS 5 are still shipping with 5.8.8. They are still security-supported until 2017, and believe it or not people still develop on them. I am personally fine with this change, though.

What we could do instead is simply require a newer version of Getopt::Long, which would let people continue using their ancient OSes and install a newer version from CPAN if necessary. It's also the proper way to specify the dependency.

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Message 12 of 16 in “[ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc0”
  1. Junio C HamanoApr 18, 2014
  2. Johan HerlandApr 19, 2014
  3. Junio C HamanoApr 19, 2014
  4. Felipe ContrerasApr 20, 2014
  5. Junio C HamanoApr 20, 2014
  6. Kyle J. McKayApr 22, 2014
  7. Jonathan NiederApr 22, 2014
  8. Junio C HamanoApr 22, 2014
  9. Jonathan NiederApr 22, 2014
  10. Junio C HamanoApr 22, 2014
  11. Jonathan NiederApr 22, 2014
  12. brian m. carlsonApr 22, 2014
  13. Junio C HamanoApr 22, 2014
  14. Johan HerlandApr 23, 2014
  15. Junio C HamanoApr 23, 2014
  16. Junio C HamanoApr 22, 2014

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