From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from secure.elehost.com (secure.elehost.com [185.209.179.11]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BDC4D1CA81 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2024 01:20:31 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=185.209.179.11 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1729646434; cv=none; b=rIGQCs40/3rp7P6XnnThwo1zMzO7RNua9y/nEp87hfxbCwB6wZCfwd220ZSf0gWDzbP6cYwfwzt4sZoWqQ59bsPlqAIo+Qb/yxFRPJ6+aNlP1qb6tnGSti1MXznKckY7y069TXk8vPPbHnxHUxOliF3oOn9DnwQi4kkc/muY5Q8= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1729646434; c=relaxed/simple; bh=EYcszAra0N+6riI9rR7/mtweGZhc+ZIJnCauD5iiiuA=; h=From:To:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=h9w7+LdR80miLAj9ekdOK2HaCJ+VVbp1GU8XAWCD9UIGFXwpmZSwLlsxhRjbOSj+WpmjAlghP1SHiVjV7X65+lB3FnNUyS+zkxNEZI56Ajyy8QJKOkE6XcMaMjoOzlc2XwliArx/hWLni1HkwfpeDVB/DIgy4NEokiKcRMt0YVg= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=nexbridge.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=nexbridge.com; arc=none smtp.client-ip=185.209.179.11 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=nexbridge.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=nexbridge.com X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at secure.elehost.com Received: from Mazikeen (pool-99-228-67-183.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [99.228.67.183]) (authenticated bits=0) by secure.elehost.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Debian-22ubuntu3) with ESMTPSA id 49N1F7DS3000207 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 23 Oct 2024 01:15:08 GMT Reply-To: From: To: "'brian m. carlson'" , Cc: "'Junio C Hamano'" , "'Taylor Blau'" References: <20241010235621.738239-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> <20241023004600.1645313-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> <20241023004600.1645313-12-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> In-Reply-To: <20241023004600.1645313-12-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 11/12] Require Perl 5.26.0 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 21:15:02 -0400 Organization: Nexbridge Inc. Message-ID: <010f01db24e9$00250e50$006f2af0$@nexbridge.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 16.0 Thread-Index: AQHAnR9StMNONYzAAmwEURVcWfNXrQEiTVpAAko++0KyrTKVoA== Content-Language: en-ca On October 22, 2024 8:46 PM, brian m. carlson wrote: >Our platform support policy states that we require "versions of dependencies which >are generally accepted as stable and supportable, e.g., in line with the version used >by other long-term-support distributions". Of Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, and SLES, the >four most common distributions that provide LTS versions, the version with >mainstream long-term security support with the oldest Perl is 5.26.0 in SLES 15.6. > >This is a major upgrade, since Perl 5.8.1, according to the Perl documentation, was >released in September of 2003. It brings a lot of new features that we can choose >to use, such as s///r to return the modified string, the postderef functionality, and >subroutine signatures, although the latter was still considered experimental until >5.36. > >This change was made with the following one-liner, which intentionally excludes >modifying the vendored modules we include to avoid conflicts: > > git grep -l 'use 5.008001' | grep -v 'LoadCPAN/' | xargs perl -pi -e 's/use >5.008001/require v5.26/' > >Use require instead of use to avoid changing the behavior as the latter enables >features and the former does not. > >Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson Please be aware that the most recent version of Perl available on NonStop is currently 5.26.3. On the ia64 variant, we will not see a newer version *ever*. The x86 platform Supports 5.30.3 and may evolve. By the end of 2025, the ia64 platform goes away, so as long as we can keep 5.26.x as a minimum, that would be acceptable. Thanks, Randall