From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 16:04:40 GMT
Subject: Re: Gitweb caching: Google Summer of Code project
Message-ID: <b77c1dce0805300904o5b4363efkc4591fc820164bf7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080530153822.GH593@machine.or.cz>

2008/5/30 Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>:
>
> Wow, and here I was wondering if requiring at least 5.6 was not too
> liberal. ;-) I believe 5.8 is the newest possible candidate though, it
> is still too widespread; e.g. Debian-wise, many servers run on Etch and
> are going to stay there even for quite some time after Lenny gets
> released. Heck, I still have accounts on plenty of Sarge machines. ;-)
> (Sarge seems to have Perl-5.8.4.)

I think 5.8.2 is a good _minimum_ perl to support. Before that one,
Unicode support is next to null (5.6 and below) or too buggy, and
gitweb needs that.