From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:10:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove dependency on IO::String from Git.pm test
Message-ID: <b77c1dce0806180810r46a3e2a5i4eb228e6dc19613d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <m37icmol6y.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

2008/6/18 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>:
> 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.

"use 5.008;" is preferred form; "use v5.8.0" might yield obscure error
messages on perls < 5.6, which is not the desired result.