From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
To: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Oldest supported Perl version
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:40:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4087cc50904201140n1e156583w28b5c411850d7d25@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76718490904201132h3932e6dan3b1c0d841bd3cf00@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 13:32, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyway, I see that there are basically a few categories to decide on:
>
> 1) gitweb
> 2) the *.perl scripts
> 3) Git.pm
> 4) the parts of the test suite that use perl
>
> I think there is consensus that (1) is 5.8.1 for unicode reasons. (3)
> and (4), for all practical purposes, are apparently 5.6.0. So that
> leaves (2), which is either 5.6.0 or 5.8.1 depending upon which gmane
> thread you consult.
It looks like 5.6.0 was released a DECADE ago. Drop it.
My advice is to take the advice of Perl hacker H.Merijn Brand:
> My personal preference for the lowest usable and reliable perl version
is 5.8.5 (FWIW)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-20 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-20 14:59 Oldest supported Perl version Jay Soffian
2009-04-20 15:40 ` [PATCH RFC3.5 04/12] send-email: Verification for --smtp-server and --smpt-server-port Michael Witten
2009-04-20 15:43 ` Oldest supported Perl version Michael Witten
2009-04-20 15:51 ` Jay Soffian
2009-04-20 16:18 ` H.Merijn Brand
2009-04-20 17:29 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-20 21:07 ` H.Merijn Brand
2009-04-20 17:59 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-04-20 18:27 ` Jay Soffian
2009-04-20 18:32 ` Jay Soffian
2009-04-20 18:40 ` Michael Witten [this message]
2009-04-20 19:11 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-20 19:58 ` Michael Witten
2009-04-20 21:10 ` H.Merijn Brand
2009-04-20 22:38 ` Michael Witten
2009-04-20 22:39 ` Michael Witten
2009-04-20 22:56 ` H.Merijn Brand
2009-04-21 3:08 ` Jeff King
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