Our platform support policy states that we require "versions of dependencies which are generally accepted as stable and supportable, e.g., in line with the version used by other long-term-support distributions". Of Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, and SLES, the four most common distributions that provide LTS versions, the version with mainstream long-term security support with the oldest Perl is 5.26.0 in SLES 15.6. This is a major upgrade, since Perl 5.8.1, according to the Perl documentation, was released in September of 2003. It brings a lot of new features that we can choose to use, such as s///r to return the modified string, the postderef functionality, and subroutine signatures, although the latter was still considered experimental until 5.36. Update the INSTALL file to reflect our new dependency requirement. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- INSTALL | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 6e0321ff0e..54d7528f9e 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ Issues of note: - A POSIX-compliant shell is required to run some scripts needed for everyday use (e.g. "bisect", "request-pull"). - - "Perl" version 5.8.1 or later is needed to use some of the + - "Perl" version 5.26.0 or later is needed to use some of the features (e.g. sending patches using "git send-email", interacting with svn repositories with "git svn"). If you can live without these, use NO_PERL. Note that recent releases of
