Re: [RFC/PATCH] perl: bump the required Perl version to 5.10.0 from 5.8.0

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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

Date

Dec 27, 2017, 19:21 UTC

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Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

>> This is similar to Jeff King's jk/drop-ancient-curl series in that
>> we're dropping perl releases that are rarely tested anymore, however
>> unlike those patches git still works on e.g. 5.8.8 (I couldn't build
>> anything older).

[...]

> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

One caveat I forgot: please also update the INSTALL file:

 - Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external
   programs and libraries.  Git can be used without most of them by adding
   the approriate "NO_<LIBRARY>=YesPlease" to the make command line or
   config.mak file.
[...]
        - "Perl" version 5.8 or later is needed to use some of the