From: "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
To: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Oldest supported Perl version
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:56:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090421005617.0ded1ff4@pc09.procura.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4087cc50904201539m7ee6feb5vfb944e8ec50b1ddc@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:39:34 -0500, Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 17:38, Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 16:10, H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> >> 5.8.1 is the worst distribution ever.
> >
> > But then you endorse 5.6.1?
>
> That is:
>
> But then you endorse 5.6.1 if 5.8.5 is not chosen.
5.6.1 and 5.6.2 are fine for non-Unicode environments.
When using Unicode (utf-8) and/or 64bit, I'd strongly advise not to go
below 5.8.5
--
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/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-20 22:58 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
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 [this message]
2009-04-21 3:08 ` Jeff King
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