From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:23:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Minimum Perl version?
Message-ID: <AANLkTin_wrCnpz-fz=FuJ96j+xBHM1-5HTGG0vP7bmDY@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100924100019.GT23563@ece.pdx.edu>

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:00, Tait <git.git@t41t.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

We generally support 5.6 or above, but 5.8 or above for some other
programs.

As far as I can tell there was no new open syntax introduced in that
series that wasn't supported before.

What specifically is breaking for you, and on what perl version?