On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:59:14 -0700 (PDT), Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > Now the real question was if we still support anything older, and if so > > > what is the bottom version? > > > > > > I certainly can go with "5.8.1 or later", but I vaguely recall during the > > > gitweb discussion we said anything without the utf-8 support is unusable > > > for gitweb, but I think we also said that the rest of the git codebase > > > should support running with something older (5.6.1, perhaps). > > > 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) Unicode? 5.8.4 or up. Most desirable 5.8.5 5.8.1 is the worst distribution ever. ask purl on irc : <Tux> purl, perl-5.8.1? <purl> i guess perl-5.8.1 is made from blood, sweat, tears, coffee and single malt > 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. 5.6.1 or 5.8.5 > > Whatever is decided this time, perhaps it should be burned into the tops of > > the *.perl scripts (i.e. "require 5.008;"). It should also be added to > > CodingGuidelines. You know, so this conversation doesn't keep recurring. :-) -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.3, 11.0, and 11.1, AIX 5.2 and 5.3. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html