Re: Oldest supported Perl version

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On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:59:00AM -0400, Jay Soffian wrote:

> 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. :-)

I have no real comment on _which_ version, but yes, I think a 'require'
for the right version would be very helpful. The error messages you get
when running on a too-old version can be confusing, at best. Saying "you
need a newer perl" would be much nicer.

-Peff
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