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Subject: RE: [RFC/PATCH] perl: bump the required Perl version to 5.10.0 from 5.8.0
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On December 23, 2017 12:44 PM,  Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> 
> In late 2010 I bumped our perl version dependency from 5.6.* to 5.8.0[1]. Git
> had been failing for a while on <5.8, and it was suspected that nobody cared
> enough to keep using it, which turned out to be true.
> 
> Follow that up with bumping the dependency to 5.10.0. The 5.8.0 release
> was released in 2002, and the 5.10.0 release just turned 10 years old[2].

The git HPE NonStop NSE/NSX ports that I maintain has Perl 5.22 generally available, so no objections here. Ours is just a CPAN dependency concern as previously discussed. 😊

Cheers,
Randall

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