Re: [PATCH] change Perl syntax to support Perl 5.6

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Ask Bjørn Hansen <ask@develooper.com> writes:

> On Aug 30, 2008, at 10:39, Robert Schiele wrote:
>
>> git-add--interactive has one Perl command that was not yet present in
>> Perl 5.6.  Changing this single command makes it compatible again.
>
> Perl 5.8.0 was released six years ago.  Perl 5.6.0 was released in
> *2000*.  I think we can safely tell people to get with the program and
> use Perl 5.8.
>
>> This is an alternative to my previous patch that just declared Perl
>> 5.8 to
>> be the required version.
>
> +1 to that one.

Now, would somebody volunteer to go everywhere our user base (who no
longer read Release Notes) hang around, post a message saying that some
people on git development list are proposing to drop Perl 5.6 support, and
if the proposal goes ahead, it is possible that the next release may force
upgrading Perl for them, to make sure they won't complain saying they've
never heard about the "incompatible change" beforehand?