From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: Perl version support (was Re: [PATCH] git-mv is not able to handle big directories) Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 09:49:47 +0100 Message-ID: <438AC4AB.1040405@op5.se> References: <200511231141.57683.lan@ac-sw.com> <7voe4b7uw7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vk6ez7u1y.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <867jazre78.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <7vu0e369p4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20051123135604.GB16995@mythryan2.michonline.com> <86mzjvphhj.fsf_-_@blue.stonehenge.com> <438A6175.2020705@michonline.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Nov 28 09:51:35 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Egehv-0000sc-6i for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 09:49:55 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751254AbVK1Itu convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Nov 2005 03:49:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751255AbVK1Itu (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Nov 2005 03:49:50 -0500 Received: from linux-server1.op5.se ([193.201.96.2]:6568 "EHLO smtp-gw1.op5.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751254AbVK1Itt (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Nov 2005 03:49:49 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.19] (unknown [213.88.215.14]) by smtp-gw1.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4397B6BCBE for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 09:49:48 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc3 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: git@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <438A6175.2020705@michonline.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Ryan Anderson wrote: > Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >=20 >>However, I have not seen the "target market" of git discussed yet >>(I came late to the party), so if support for 5.6 (or 5.5) is not cho= sen, >>it merely limits the market. >=20 >=20 > Well, I think the general target market[1] for Linux probably applies > here, as well. On the other hand, the users limited to Perl 5.5 for > corporate reasons are probably also prevented from installing new too= ls > for general use, so the difference may not matter very much. >=20 > [1] - "World domination", of course. >=20 Servers with software installation restrictions are rarely used for=20 development either and the server side part of git is all C. So long as= =20 that's true I don't think we need to bother very much with staying=20 backwards compatible. It's nice if we manage it, but we shouldn't, imho= ,=20 bend over backwards for the sake of perl 5.5 (or even 5.6). Just my two =F6re. :) --=20 Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231