From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:44:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC3.5 05/12] send-email: Improve redability and error-handling in send_message's sendmail code
Message-ID: <7vskk5s15t.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <b4087cc50904181943t71d501a6r51bb4cc846f32f78@mail.gmail.com>

Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 21:17, Thomas Adam <thomas.adam22@gmail.com> wrote:
>> More concerning is that it's a perl 5.10ism -- you cannot assume that
>> perl 5.10 is installed on all platforms.  I really wouldn't use this
>> construct.
>
> See that's the thing: How am I supposed to know it's a perl 5.10ism?

Read perldelta.pod  They come with your Perl distribution.

Debian based distro installs them in

    /usr/share/perl/5.10.0/pod/perl*delta.pod

and Fedora seems to have them in

    /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/pod/perl*delta.pod

I think we stick to something like early 5.8 to support platforms with
infrequent updates to Perl.