Re: Let's bump the minimum Perl version to 5.8
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Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
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- Sep 24, 2010, 13:59 UTC
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On 09/24/2010 03:32 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
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> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 13:08, Tor Arntsen<tor@spacetec.no> wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 14:56, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason<avarab@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> However, I'd like to shift the discussion a bit: Do we want to support >>> the 5.6 line *at all* anymore? I don't think so. As you point out >>> yourself you can just compile 5.8 or later on these machines. >> >> 5.8 as minimum is probably for the best. It's not that just you can >> compile a newer version (5.8), more importantly, Perl 5.8 is available >> as a package from those semi-official 3party repositories for most >> systems (at least the *nix systems I have access to) > > Do those repositories also have 5.10 and 5.12? >
Fedora 13 ships with Perl 5.10.0. IIRC, Fedora 12 (or possibly 11) shipped with Perl 5.8. Let's not ask for more angry users than we can handle. Since the current code seems to work fine with 5.8 and later, I think that's a safe minimum to require for full git functionality. Especially considering it was 3 years since we decided on 5.6, which was by then 7 years old.
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