Re: Let's bump the minimum Perl version to 5.8

>>>>>> "Ævar" == Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
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> Ævar> Since we're not getting patches for common things that have been
> Ævar> broken on 5.6 for years and bumping the requirenment to an 8 year old
> Ævar> perl (5.8) instead of a 10 year old one (5.6) would make things much
> Ævar> easier, including:
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> Ævar>  * Fixing the perl/ Makefile mess
>
> Ævar>  * Being able to use 5.8 features
>
> Ævar>  * Being able to honestly support the 5.8 release, 5.6 doesn't even
> Ævar>    compile on modern systems without undocumented monkeypatches, and
> Ævar>    few people use it so we don't get fixes for it.
>
> Ævar> I'd like to propose dropping 5.6 support, and move to say 5.008. I can
> Ævar> do the work required to add appropriate docs / use statements and
> Ævar> fixes to bugs that we can't fix on 5.6.
>
> As the token resident Perl expert, I'd be completely fine with that.
> Sane choice.
>
> It might be useful to document that by adding:
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>  require 5.008;