It looks like the Koha instance on RHEL 6.9 using Perl 5.10.1 is version 3.20.x. (It may be worth noting it isn't available on the Internet; it's on a private network.) Looks like 3.20.0 was a May 2015 release, so it is getting long in the tooth, although not quite as long as 3.8.0, which was in April 2012 (and the first version of Koha where I contributed a patch). Looks like 3.8.23 was February 2014.
David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Direct: 02 8005 0595 -----Original Message----- From: koha-devel-boun...@lists.koha-community.org [mailto:koha-devel-boun...@lists.koha-community.org] On Behalf Of Paul A Sent: Thursday, 19 April 2018 1:24 AM To: koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Koha now requires Perl 5.20 On 2018-04-18 09:57 AM, Jonathan Druart wrote: >> We have Koha running on a RHEL 6 instance which uses 5.10.1, and it >> seems > to be doing fine so far. It is an older version of Koha though. > > Which version is "an older version of Koha"? Hesitating to intervene, but as a point of reference, we have three instances (WAN, LAN and backup) of Koha 3.8.24 running perfectly (Ubuntu LTS 14.04 [note 1] and 16.04) using Perl versions from 5.018002 up to 5.022001. Our notes do not show that we had to "downgrade" any particular Perl modules, libraries etc (just add a few during tarball installs.) Over the next few weeks, we will start our two-yearly software review with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and try the latest version of Koha (we decided in 2016 not to upgrade Koha, as we are a non-lending library and saw a performance hit on cataloguing and search, both OPAC and staff. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" -- with obvious security mods.) If we find anything relevant, I'll get back to you all. Best -- Paul Tired old sys-admin. Note 1: our WAN OPAC server: /$ uptime 11:16:12 up 1022 days, 14:47 -- not too shabby for reliability ;=} > > On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 at 22:36 David Cook <dc...@prosentient.com.au > <mailto:dc...@prosentient.com.au>> wrote: > > Hi Jonathan,____ > > __ __ > > Thanks for reverting that patch. ____ > > __ __ > > We have Koha running on a RHEL 6 instance which uses 5.10.1, and it > seems to be doing fine so far. It is an older version of Koha > though. I just did the following grep: grep -R "use 5\." *. I see > “use 5.010” but nothing greater than that. ____ > > __ __ > > I don’t think there’s really much that is special about installing > Koha on OpenSUSE per se. We just do a source install and use a > combination of vendor packages and CPAN modules to meet the required > dependencies. (Actually, we now do RPM builds that match a > particular structure that we used when we just did source installs > by hand.) I could take a look at the wiki though.____ > > __ __ > > David Cook____ > > Systems Librarian____ > > Prosentient Systems____ > > 72/330 Wattle St > > <https://maps.google.com/?q=72/330+Wattle+St+Ultimo,+NSW&entry=gmail&source=g>____ > > Ultimo, NSW > > <https://maps.google.com/?q=72/330+Wattle+St+Ultimo,+NSW&entry=gmail&source=g> > 2007____ > > Australia____ > > __ __ > > Office: 02 9212 0899 <tel:02%2092%2012%2008%2099>____ > > Direct: 02 8005 0595 <tel:02%2080%2005%2005%2095>____ > > __ __ > > *From:*Jonathan Druart > [mailto:jonathan.dru...@bugs.koha-community.org > <mailto:jonathan.dru...@bugs.koha-community.org>] > *Sent:* Tuesday, 17 April 2018 8:58 PM > > > *To:* David Cook <dc...@prosentient.com.au > <mailto:dc...@prosentient.com.au>> > *Cc:* koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org > <mailto:koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org> > > *Subject:* Re: [Koha-devel] Koha now requires Perl 5.20____ > > __ __ > > Hi David,____ > > I did not confirm Mark's assumption on pushing but made sure 5.20 > was available in most of the GNU/Linux distros I know.____ > > If this restriction is not necessary it does not make sense to keep > it, I am going to revert the patch later today.____ > > However I am pretty sure 5.10 is not enough.____ > > If you have knowledge about how to install Koha on OpenSuse it would > be great to update the wiki, the existing page is from 2010. We have > people asking on #koha or the mailing list sometimes.____ > > __ __ > > Cheers,____ > > Jonathan____ > > __ __ > > On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 at 22:41 David Cook <dc...@prosentient.com.au > <mailto:dc...@prosentient.com.au>> wrote:____ > > Hi all,____ > > ____ > > I just tried to work on Koha master on OpenSUSE 42.3, which was > released on 2017-07-26, but I’m being prevented from installing > Koha, because OpenSUSE 42.3 uses Perl 5.18.2 rather than Perl > 5.20. ____ > > ____ > > I tracked the change back to > https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20104. > The claim was that C4::Log::cronlogaction uses caller and that > caller doesn’t exist before Perl 5.20, but that’s not true. The > caller function has been in Perl for an extremely long time. You > can find it in RHEL 6.9 which uses Perl 5.10. I just used it in > Perl 5.18.2. So that doesn’t seem like a good justification for > requiring a minimum version of Perl 5.20.____ > > ____ > > I have a feeling that this change is going to bite other people > developing and using Koha around the world. There are people > running Koha on openSUSE, Suse Enterprise Linux, Fedora, Red > Hat, CentOS… probably other distros as well. Are we really going > to exclude everyone that doesn’t use recent Debian-based distros > from using newer versions of Koha?____ > > ____ > > It seems to me that this decision was made without community > discussion. Maybe I’m wrong, but I figured I’d bring it up with > everyone. ____ > > ____ > > For my part, I’m just going to hack around this requirement for > now, but I don’t really like that as a long-term solution. ____ > > ____ > > What does everyone else think?____ > > ____ > > David Cook____ > > Systems Librarian____ > > Prosentient Systems____ > > 72/330 Wattle St > > <https://maps.google.com/?q=72/330+Wattle+St+Ultimo,+NSW&entry=gmail&source=g>____ > > Ultimo, NSW > > <https://maps.google.com/?q=72/330+Wattle+St+Ultimo,+NSW&entry=gmail&source=g> > 2007____ > > Australia____ > > ____ > > Office: 02 9212 0899 <tel:02%2092%2012%2008%2099>____ > > Direct: 02 8005 0595 <tel:02%2080%2005%2005%2095>____ _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
