On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 5:54 PM Karl Berry <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I don't know why, but I only received this message today. > raise the minimum version requirement for Perl to 5.18.0 > > Sounds sensible to me, for the reasons you outlined. > > But, I think it would be wise to give users a way to override the > requirement, of course with the caveat "don't blame us if it doesn't > work", unless there are true requirements such that nothing at all would > work without 5.18.0 -- which seems unlikely (and undesirable, IMHO). > 2013 is not that long ago, in autotime. > > don't know what the Automake maintainers' current release schedule > > We (I, at least, and I'm pretty sure it's true for Jim too) have no schedule. > > looks like but I imagine this would be targeted for 1.17.0, > > I guess we would declare the version making this change as 1.17.0. > I don't have any other plans that would involve a new minor version. > > that happens (ideally at about the same time as the Autoconf release > making the same change). > > Sounds feasible, since it doesn't sound like it will be especially quick > (I'm glad). --thanks, karl. >
