>>>>> "Ãvar" == Ãvar ArnfjÃrà Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: Ãvar> Since we're not getting patches for common things that have been Ãvar> broken on 5.6 for years and bumping the requirenment to an 8 year old Ãvar> perl (5.8) instead of a 10 year old one (5.6) would make things much Ãvar> easier, including: Ãvar> * Fixing the perl/ Makefile mess Ãvar> * Being able to use 5.8 features Ãvar> * Being able to honestly support the 5.8 release, 5.6 doesn't even Ãvar> compile on modern systems without undocumented monkeypatches, and Ãvar> few people use it so we don't get fixes for it. Ãvar> I'd like to propose dropping 5.6 support, and move to say 5.008. I can Ãvar> do the work required to add appropriate docs / use statements and Ãvar> fixes to bugs that we can't fix on 5.6. As the token resident Perl expert, I'd be completely fine with that. Sane choice. It might be useful to document that by adding: require 5.008; at the beginning of each file that presumes it, as you get around to editing it. That way, Perl won't even try to run it if it's too old. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion -- 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