Re: [PATCH] Remove dependency on IO::String from Git.pm test

> Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix.org> writes:
>
>> Instead of using IO::String to create an in-memory filehandle, use
>> open() with a scalar reference as the filename.  This feature has been
>> available since Perl 5.8.0 (which was released in 2002), so it should
>> be available pretty much everywhere by now.
>
> Besides if I understand correctly gitweb very much requires Perl >= 5.8
> because of required Unicode support.
>
> Nevertheless adding "use v5.8.0;" or "use 5.008_000;" would be I guess
> good idea.