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

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 24, 2010, 19:10 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTimOpyvO+GZsKJPPWktVJTR1khLD2izyCKqNXwvA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4C9CAEB7.1030606@op5.se>

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 13:59, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:

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> On 09/24/2010 03:32 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 13:08, Tor Arntsen<tor@spacetec.no>  wrote:
>>> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 14:56, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason<avarab@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> However, I'd like to shift the discussion a bit: Do we want to support
>>>> the 5.6 line *at all* anymore? I don't think so. As you point out
>>>> yourself you can just compile 5.8 or later on these machines.
>>>
>>> 5.8 as minimum is probably for the best. It's not that just you can
>>> compile a newer version (5.8), more importantly, Perl 5.8 is available
>>> as a package from those semi-official 3party repositories for most
>>> systems (at least the *nix systems I have access to)
>>
>> Do those repositories also have 5.10 and 5.12?
>>
>
> Fedora 13 ships with Perl 5.10.0. IIRC, Fedora 12 (or possibly 11)
> shipped with Perl 5.8. Let's not ask for more angry users than we
> can handle. Since the current code seems to work fine with 5.8 and
> later, I think that's a safe minimum to require for full git
> functionality.

I didn't mean to suggest we bump to 5.10 now. I just thought I'd ask for the record in case we have this discussion again 3-4 years from now.

> Especially considering it was 3 years since we decided on 5.6, which
> was by then 7 years old.

Do you happen to have a link to that discussion? I can't find it.