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From: "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Oldest supported Perl version
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:07:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090420230707.48f5f82c@pc09.procura.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904201926531.6771@intel-tinevez-2-302>

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:29:03 +0200 (CEST), Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> 
> > * defined-or is available in any version of perl 5.8.x is the binary
> >   was built with the appropriate patch, which is available on my CPAN
> >   directory:
> >   ftp://download.xs4all.nl/pub/mirror/CPAN/authors/id/H/HM/HMBRAND/
> >   These patches still include the 'err' keyword
> 
> Do you realize how much _pain_ you cause here?

Me? Why?
I just couldn't line *without* defined-or after I first encountered it,
so I backported it to 5.8.x (after some patch from someone else) and
people thought it would be a good idea to semi-officially allow it to
be available for all.

Officially, defined-or is *NOT* available in perl-5.8.x. End of story.

*ALL* my production code expects defined-or to be available.

> I just do not have the _time_ to recompile Perl 5.8 for msysGit!

Sorry, I can't help you there

> Bah,
> Dscho "who thinks that a lot of people would not introduce dependencies 
> so lightly if they actually felt the pain they cause"

-- 
H.Merijn Brand  http://tux.nl      Perl Monger  http://amsterdam.pm.org/
using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00,
11.11, 11.23, and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.3, 11.0, and 11.1, AIX 5.2 and 5.3.
http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/           http://www.test-smoke.org/
http://qa.perl.org      http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-20 21:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-20 14:59 Oldest supported Perl version Jay Soffian
2009-04-20 15:40 ` [PATCH RFC3.5 04/12] send-email: Verification for --smtp-server and --smpt-server-port Michael Witten
2009-04-20 15:43 ` Oldest supported Perl version Michael Witten
2009-04-20 15:51   ` Jay Soffian
2009-04-20 16:18 ` H.Merijn Brand
2009-04-20 17:29   ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-20 21:07     ` H.Merijn Brand [this message]
2009-04-20 17:59 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-04-20 18:27   ` Jay Soffian
2009-04-20 18:32     ` Jay Soffian
2009-04-20 18:40       ` Michael Witten
2009-04-20 19:11         ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-20 19:58           ` Michael Witten
2009-04-20 21:10   ` H.Merijn Brand
2009-04-20 22:38     ` Michael Witten
2009-04-20 22:39       ` Michael Witten
2009-04-20 22:56         ` H.Merijn Brand
2009-04-21  3:08 ` Jeff King

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