Re: Oldest supported Perl version
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Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
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- Apr 20, 2009, 18:27 UTC
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On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> writes: >> So here's my take-away. For the *.perl scripts and gitweb, it's >> 5.8.0. For the test suite and Git.pm, all Perl versions are >> theoretically supported, but for practical purposes, it may be >> 5.6.0. > > Errr... no. For gitweb we require good Unicode support, which means > Perl 5.8.x (IIRC 5.8.1). For all other: commands (and helpers) > written in Perl like git-svn, fragments of Perl in test suite (because > of incompatibility and corner cases of shell scripting) - with possible > exception of testing gitweb, and Git.pm (which some commands in Perl > use) I think it is reasonable to expect 5.6.0 at least.
Um, isn't that basically exactly what I said? The only difference is you're clarifying gitweb to be 5.8.1 instead of 5.8.0. Fine. that's why this went to the git list.
j.