Re: PPC SHA-1 Updates in "pu"

Hi,

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

I vaguely recall that last time we discussed the minimum Perl
version requirement somebody perhaps Merlyn said 5.6 is old
enough but in some corporate settings people may still be stuck
with 5.004.

Tentatively let's say our cut-off point is somewhere around 5.6.
If we can get away without relying on extra from CPAN that would
be great.  Otherwise as long as the modules from CPAN we end up
depending on are all compatible with the cut-off version of Perl
that would be acceptable.  We might even try to be nicer and
carry a straight copy of what we require from CPAN in compat/
just like we have subprocess.py there (modulo licensing worries
if any, of course).

I can live with it. Although I still think that it would be a good idea to 
convert (at least the most commonly used) scripts to C.

Perl, Python and sometimes even bash are good for fast prototyping. But 
for serious work, such as profiling, they are not that good.

And you can see different behaviour on different platforms (plus things 
like the SunCC requirement for XS on Solaris), which make the scripts less 
robust.

Ciao,
Dscho