From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H.Merijn Brand" Subject: Re: Oldest supported Perl version Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:07:07 +0200 Message-ID: <20090420230707.48f5f82c@pc09.procura.nl> References: <76718490904200759l24e1bd9exe0e1b60f7b2847a7@mail.gmail.com> <20090420181806.229b833e@pc09.procura.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jay Soffian , Junio C Hamano , Michael Witten , git To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 20 23:09:30 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lw0k4-0006Ul-ED for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:09:28 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755754AbZDTVHt (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:07:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754140AbZDTVHs (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:07:48 -0400 Received: from smtp-vbr10.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.30]:4511 "EHLO smtp-vbr10.xs4all.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752595AbZDTVHs (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:07:48 -0400 Received: from pc09.procura.nl (procura.xs4all.nl [82.95.216.29]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-vbr10.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n3KL77xv022026 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:07:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from h.m.brand@xs4all.nl) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1cvs44 (GTK+ 2.14.4; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwEAIAAACI8LKTAAAACXBIWXMAAABIAAAASABGyWs+AAAC JElEQVRo3u2aMY4CMQxFczZ6RItEzRm4DBINDbRUSPRInIRbsNK6+dJfezN4kokn48IaCSjysL8d e9Knoj2fr9f9/gllqQ6U9/vxWK3EdwdIEGjRIVCu18NhuxUfK46SH81+fzrdbuKPx/P5ctHQdAdI TKAgpvV6s9ntBEfXEYSGgMQzIHnuFBBjkshCNJ2KtJZ04hHNAugP8bZr3NIHhbcF0AKoK0CoaHXU LUWBIs1n+jV+Fl8CVqOApEXAwyMO/DSR4XVntoAYDR7eBjQupuYAYTMph8Rj21D4m7MChN02tpqs NSnb/KqU2oHCXu5xDCgflj/RAgBiKBIXnICzAsSjWBsTz5K4/HeXYvb8yK5lY3VGEwPi2aONKT+5 AlcxrTPOwcTiraGRChgMEKJh0bVVifGVTq6qgBiNVl8QE29EsK6VE+YJAOG2wz5AvsqUS6uqgHCA n4NGvBYpnJ64Jgg27sCtxtBk1CJIA4S/GhdWKh07QxUB48jWGhZ4jKamRRr/T8/M0AaEyctry6YB 4dTGj9iWZNs3DahES5kPCJOu0RQbF/fQOBprsB9gaO9JtPDzII9U5ySXX7AnuIt91y54AAW7rPpT LCe5gt3F+CLqr2UarGB3MXvMylWGq4+9RCx3TW1oJq1t3HPQlFs6N1fFNEB4s8dn7Ne7ACSm7TPQ I5quAWmw6qBpulHM33B0Csge4Nd8JTTYG2b1XyRe3lH8x34ABJ6aePuQ2N4AAAAASUVORK5CYII= X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:29:03 +0200 (CEST), Johannes Schindelin 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/