Re: PPC SHA-1 Updates in "pu"

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jun 25, 2006, 10:48 UTC
Message-ID: <7vzmg1v7ci.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060625102037.GI29364@pasky.or.cz>

Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

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>> And old ones. If you would require me to upgrade to Perl 5.8.1, I would 
>> rather stop upgrading git.
>
>   please read it again - I'm not requiring you to upgrade to Perl 5.8.1.
> I'm just saying that if you have Perl older than 5.8.1, you might need
> to install some extra modules from CPAN.
>
>   Now, if that's not acceptable either that's fine by me and I can
> adapt, I just need to know at which point we _will_ require you to
> upgrade or install extra modules.

I vaguely recall that last time we discussed the minimum Perl version requirement somebody perhaps Merlyn said 5.6 is old enough but in some corporate settings people may still be stuck with 5.004.

Tentatively let's say our cut-off point is somewhere around 5.6. If we can get away without relying on extra from CPAN that would be great. Otherwise as long as the modules from CPAN we end up depending on are all compatible with the cut-off version of Perl that would be acceptable. We might even try to be nicer and carry a straight copy of what we require from CPAN in compat/ just like we have subprocess.py there (modulo licensing worries if any, of course).

Johannes, Linus and the list, would that be a good enough guideline?