On October 22, 2024 8:46 PM, brian m. carlson wrote: >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. > >This change was made with the following one-liner, which intentionally excludes >modifying the vendored modules we include to avoid conflicts: > > git grep -l 'use 5.008001' | grep -v 'LoadCPAN/' | xargs perl -pi -e 's/use >5.008001/require v5.26/' > >Use require instead of use to avoid changing the behavior as the latter enables >features and the former does not. > >Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Please be aware that the most recent version of Perl available on NonStop is currently 5.26.3. On the ia64 variant, we will not see a newer version *ever*. The x86 platform Supports 5.30.3 and may evolve. By the end of 2025, the ia64 platform goes away, so as long as we can keep 5.26.x as a minimum, that would be acceptable. Thanks, Randall
