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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] change Perl syntax to support Perl 5.6
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:57:51 -0700
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Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> Can anyone give a concrete justification for Perl 5.6 support? Who is
> needing it and why do they have to use Perl 5.6? Does it offset the time
> spent discussing and reviewing this and the maintenance burden of extra
> complicated code?
> 

I believe RHEL4 is Perl 5.6.1, but I could be wrong.

	-hpa