On Sep 24, 2010, at 10:08 AM, Tor Arntsen wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 15:32, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 13:08, Tor Arntsen <tor@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> 5.8 as minimum is probably for the best. It's not that just you can >>> compile a newer version (5.8), more importantly, Perl 5.8 is available >>> as a package from those semi-official 3party repositories for most >>> systems (at least the *nix systems I have access to) >> >> Do those repositories also have 5.10 and 5.12? > > Anything later than 5.8 seems to very unusual except for Linux (and > presumably *bsd). Based on www.opensource.apple.com, OS X started having 5.8 in OS X 10.3.0. (And has only had 5.10 starting with 10.6.) I don't know if macports or fink still support older OS X versions, so likely a 5.8 requirement would make anyone OS X older than 10.3 build perl-5.8 from source. Just FYI, ~~ Brian-- 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