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From: Joshua Juran <jjuran@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Let's bump the minimum Perl version to 5.8
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:39:30 -0700
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On Sep 24, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Pascal Obry wrote:

> Le 24/09/2010 15:08, Tor Arntsen a =E9crit :
>> 5.8 as minimum is probably for the best. It's not that just you can
>> compile a newer version (5.8), more importantly, Perl 5.8 is =20
>> available
>> as a package from those semi-official 3party repositories for most
>> systems (at least the *nix systems I have access to), except for =20
>> those
>> like Irix 6.2 where it's hopeless anyway (perl 5.0). But I only have
>> access to irix/aix/solaris/tru64 in addition to Linux.
>
> 5.10 is available on Cygwin.

Lamp doesn't have 5.8 (only 5.6.1), but it doesn't have svn, either.

Josh