Re: Oldest supported Perl version

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 13:32, Jay Soffian [off-list ref] wrote:

Anyway, I see that there are basically a few categories to decide on:

1) gitweb
2) the *.perl scripts
3) Git.pm
4) the parts of the test suite that use perl

I think there is consensus that (1) is 5.8.1 for unicode reasons. (3)
and (4), for all practical purposes, are apparently 5.6.0. So that
leaves (2), which is either 5.6.0 or 5.8.1 depending upon which gmane
thread you consult.

It looks like 5.6.0 was released a DECADE ago. Drop it.

My advice is to take the advice of Perl hacker H.Merijn Brand:

My personal preference for the lowest usable and reliable perl version

is 5.8.5 (FWIW)