adam.prime at utoronto
Mar 18, 2013, 12:45 PM
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Re: Minimum version of perl supported?
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Sounds good to me
On 13-03-18 02:05 PM, Steve Hay wrote:
> The core's version of old already excludes 5.12. According to
> perlpolicy.pod, only the two most recent stable release series are
> supported: currently 5.14 and 5.16, and with the imminent release of
> 5.18 that means 5.14 will drop off support too.
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> Do we want to be that drastic? It's quite a change from the current
> README, but I don't see why not. I always have the impression that
> people are keen to use the latest stable Apache, so why shouldn't we
> expect them to use recent perls too? We aren't saying that it doesn't
> work with perls older than 5.14, just that we don't undertake to solve
> problems with such perls (although we still might if, as you say, it
> happens to be a two-line change to do so).
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> So I would be in favour of changing the README to say that we only
> undertake to support currently supported perl versions (we don't even
> need to enumerate them, just leave the statement at that), and maybe add
> a note to the effect that things are currently known to work back to
> 5.8.2 (and possibly earlier in some configurations) but that this is not
> officially supported.
>
>
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