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:
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 14:56, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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?
Anything later than 5.8 seems to very unusual except for Linux (and
presumably *bsd).
In Linux land atleast the current crop of RHEL dists are on 5.8.x and
for RHEL5 this is supported until 2014 (2017 with ELS).
except for those like Irix 6.2 where it's hopeless anyway (perl
5.0). But I only have access to irix/aix/solaris/tru64 in addition
to Linux.
Hrm, 6.2 is old, but 5.12 is known to compile on 6.5 at least. What
are the issues with 6.2? Perhaps they could be solved if someone with
such a machine contributed a smoker for the perl core.
IRIX 6.2 is simply suffering for being old. Unless you have to
maintain a legacy system (as I do) you would probably have upgraded to
IRIX 6.5 anyway.
(Actually it turns out that I wasn't entirely correct in what I wrote
earlier - the SGI freeware version of Perl for IRIX 6.5 is still at
5.6.1, because they stopped updating that repository. There's another
3party semi-official repo for IRIX now, not hosted by SGI, but I'm not
familiar with it.
There are currently 2 maintained options for IRIX users:
nekochan (requires IRIX 6.5.21 or better)
tgcware (IRIX 5.3 & 6.2, will also run on 6.3, 6.4, 6.5).
I maintain tgcware and have prebuilt git packages available (1.7.2.3).
Git does not build on IRIX < 6.3 without adding some sort of thirdparty
(v)snprintf code since those functions are missing in libc. I use the
ctrio library for this purpose.
-tgc
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