From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no>, Tait <git.git@t41t.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Let's bump the minimum Perl version to 5.8
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:59:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C9CAEB7.1030606@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim8aPoOkzzf4c0JHbBDVa4zJY2xM3v9fXQ-px=V@mail.gmail.com>
On 09/24/2010 03:32 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 13:08, Tor Arntsen<tor@spacetec.no> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 14:56, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason<avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> However, I'd like to shift the discussion a bit: Do we want to support
>>> the 5.6 line *at all* anymore? I don't think so. As you point out
>>> yourself you can just compile 5.8 or later on these machines.
>>
>> 5.8 as minimum is probably for the best. It's not that just you can
>> compile a newer version (5.8), more importantly, Perl 5.8 is available
>> as a package from those semi-official 3party repositories for most
>> systems (at least the *nix systems I have access to)
>
> Do those repositories also have 5.10 and 5.12?
>
Fedora 13 ships with Perl 5.10.0. IIRC, Fedora 12 (or possibly 11)
shipped with Perl 5.8. Let's not ask for more angry users than we
can handle. Since the current code seems to work fine with 5.8 and
later, I think that's a safe minimum to require for full git
functionality. Especially considering it was 3 years since we
decided on 5.6, which was by then 7 years old.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-24 13:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-24 12:56 Let's bump the minimum Perl version to 5.8 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-24 13:08 ` Tor Arntsen
2010-09-24 13:32 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-24 13:59 ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
2010-09-24 19:10 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-26 10:09 ` Andreas Ericsson
2010-09-24 14:08 ` Tor Arntsen
2010-09-24 18:03 ` Brian Gernhardt
2010-09-27 7:59 ` Tom G. Christensen
2010-09-24 17:38 ` Pascal Obry
2010-09-24 19:39 ` Joshua Juran
2010-09-24 13:47 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2010-09-24 14:04 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-24 14:07 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2010-09-24 20:00 ` [PATCH/RFC] perl: bump the required Perl version to 5.8 from 5.6.[21] Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-26 10:22 ` Tor Arntsen
2010-09-27 7:36 ` Tom G. Christensen
2010-09-24 20:00 ` [PATCH] perl: use "use warnings" instead of -w Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
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