Re: Oldest supported Perl version

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] wrote:

Jay Soffian [off-list ref] writes:

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So here's my take-away. For the *.perl scripts and gitweb, it's
5.8.0. For the test suite and Git.pm, all Perl versions are
theoretically supported, but for practical purposes, it may be
5.6.0.

Errr... no.  For gitweb we require good Unicode support, which means
Perl 5.8.x (IIRC 5.8.1).  For all other: commands (and helpers)
written in Perl like git-svn, fragments of Perl in test suite (because
of incompatibility and corner cases of shell scripting) - with possible
exception of testing gitweb, and Git.pm (which some commands in Perl
use) I think it is reasonable to expect 5.6.0 at least.

Um, isn't that basically exactly what I said? The only difference is
you're clarifying gitweb to be 5.8.1 instead of 5.8.0. Fine. that's
why this went to the git list.

j.