From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] change Perl syntax to support Perl 5.6 Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:22:11 -0700 Message-ID: <7vljyc1wzg.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20080830173947.GF7185@schiele.dyndns.org> <53906E21-DE02-4C85-8CC0-4E4AC53AE130@develooper.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Robert Schiele , git@vger.kernel.org To: Ask =?utf-8?Q?Bj=C3=B8rn?= Hansen X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 01 03:23:28 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KZy8c-0007oQ-T2 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:23:27 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752835AbYIABWV convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:22:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752833AbYIABWV (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:22:21 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:40899 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752768AbYIABWU convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:22:20 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3BA86F0B8; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:22:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-211.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A2DF86F0B6; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:22:14 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <53906E21-DE02-4C85-8CC0-4E4AC53AE130@develooper.com> (Ask =?utf-8?Q?Bj=C3=B8rn?= Hansen's message of "Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:54:42 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 6B3A6048-77C4-11DD-BCF6-3113EBD4C077-77302942!a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Ask Bj=C3=B8rn Hansen writes: > On Aug 30, 2008, at 10:39, Robert Schiele wrote: > >> git-add--interactive has one Perl command that was not yet present i= n >> 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 an= d > 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 fo= rce upgrading Perl for them, to make sure they won't complain saying they'v= e never heard about the "incompatible change" beforehand?