On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 13:59, Andreas Ericsson <ae@xxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/24/2010 03:32 PM, Ãvar ArnfjÃrà Bjarmason wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 13:08, Tor Arntsen<tor@xxxxxxxxxxx> Âwrote: >>> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 14:56, Ãvar ArnfjÃrà Bjarmason<avarab@xxxxxxxxx> Âwrote: >>> >>>> However, I'd like to shift the discussion a bit: Do we want to support >>>> the 5.6 line *at all* anymore? I don't think so. As you point out >>>> yourself you can just compile 5.8 or later on these machines. >>> >>> 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? >> > > Fedora 13 ships with Perl 5.10.0. IIRC, Fedora 12 (or possibly 11) > shipped with Perl 5.8. Let's not ask for more angry users than we > can handle. Since the current code seems to work fine with 5.8 and > later, I think that's a safe minimum to require for full git > functionality. I didn't mean to suggest we bump to 5.10 now. I just thought I'd ask for the record in case we have this discussion again 3-4 years from now. > Especially considering it was 3 years since we decided on 5.6, which > was by then 7 years old. Do you happen to have a link to that discussion? I can't find it. -- 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