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 26, 2010, 10:09 UTC
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On 09/24/2010 09:10 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
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> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 13:59, Andreas Ericsson<ae@op5.se> wrote: >> On 09/24/2010 03:32 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: >>> 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. > > I didn't mean to suggest we bump to 5.10 now. I just thought I'd ask > for the record in case we have this discussion again 3-4 years from > now. > >> Especially considering it was 3 years since we decided on 5.6, which >> was by then 7 years old. > > Do you happen to have a link to that discussion? I can't find it.
I was writing from memory, and I was wrong. Commit messages seems to point to february 2006 as the "let's be Perl 5.6 compatible" time.
git log --grep="Perl.*5.6"
might prove useful. 4.5 years then, and not 3. My, how time flies.
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