Re: Minimum Perl version?

From: Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no>
Date: Sep 24, 2010, 10:27 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=3xNSV0y-i=0KUSDRBJ8HmfSfGO7TBHTPiv_KM@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100924100019.GT23563@ece.pdx.edu>

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:00, Tait <git.git@t41t.com> wrote:

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> What is the minimum Perl version git expects to support?
>
> I ask, because f922df8... seems to have introduced a open() syntax that
> is not compatible with some older Perl versions.

I've found that for add -p you'll need 5.8.x or newer, due to stuff like

                my $fh = undef;
                open($fh, '-|', @_) or die;

which fails in e.g. perl 5.6. There could be some other stuff (in addition to add -p) that also does this kind of thing.

-Tor