Re: Oldest supported Perl version
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
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- Apr 20, 2009, 17:59 UTC
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Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> writes:
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> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote: > > > > Now the real question was if we still support anything older, and if so > > what is the bottom version? > > > > I certainly can go with "5.8.1 or later", but I vaguely recall during the > > gitweb discussion we said anything without the utf-8 support is unusable > > for gitweb, but I think we also said that the rest of the git codebase > > should support running with something older (5.6.1, perhaps).
> So here's my take-away. For the *.perl scripts and gitweb, it's > 5.8.0. For the test suite and Git.pm, all Perl versions are > theoretically supported, but for practical purposes, it may be > 5.6.0.
Errr... no. For gitweb we require good Unicode support, which means Perl 5.8.x (IIRC 5.8.1). For all other: commands (and helpers) written in Perl like git-svn, fragments of Perl in test suite (because of incompatibility and corner cases of shell scripting) - with possible exception of testing gitweb, and Git.pm (which some commands in Perl use) I think it is reasonable to expect 5.6.0 at least.
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> Whatever is decided this time, perhaps it should be burned into the tops of > the *.perl scripts (i.e. "require 5.008;"). It should also be added to > CodingGuidelines. You know, so this conversation doesn't keep recurring. :-) > > j.
-- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git