Re: Oldest supported Perl version

[Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> writes:
>> So here's my take-away. For the *.perl scripts and gitweb, it's
>> 5.8.0. For the test suite and Git.pm, all Perl versions are
>> theoretically supported, but for practical purposes, it may be
>> 5.6.0.
>
> Errr... no.  For gitweb we require good Unicode support, which means
> Perl 5.8.x (IIRC 5.8.1).  For all other: commands (and helpers)
> written in Perl like git-svn, fragments of Perl in test suite (because
> of incompatibility and corner cases of shell scripting) - with possible
> exception of testing gitweb, and Git.pm (which some commands in Perl
> use) I think it is reasonable to expect 5.6.0 at least.

Um, isn't that basically exactly what I said? The only difference is
you're clarifying gitweb to be 5.8.1 instead of 5.8.0. Fine. that's
why this went to the git list.

j.