From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H.Merijn Brand" Subject: Re: Oldest supported Perl version Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:56:17 +0200 Message-ID: <20090421005617.0ded1ff4@pc09.procura.nl> References: <76718490904200759l24e1bd9exe0e1b60f7b2847a7@mail.gmail.com> <20090420231035.683a7e0f@pc09.procura.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git To: Michael Witten X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 21 00:58:21 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 1Lw2RK-0003oG-9X for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:58:14 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757422AbZDTW4W (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:56:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756425AbZDTW4V (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:56:21 -0400 Received: from smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.24]:3607 "EHLO smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757182AbZDTW4V (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:56:21 -0400 Received: from pc09.procura.nl (procura.xs4all.nl [82.95.216.29]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n3KMuIDL039869 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:56:18 +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 17:39:34 -0500, Michael Witten wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 17:38, Michael Witten wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 16:10, H.Merijn Brand 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/