On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, chromatic via RT wrote:
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 03:53, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> The work around for (2) could be to bundle File::Spec 0.87 from CPAN. > For that matter the work around for (1) could be to bundle Math::BigInt > from CPAN. :-)
Why bundle? I'd be happy to add the half-dozen lines to Configure.pl to check for appropriate versions and bail out if they're not installed.
It's true that once we agree on the actual requirements, it'd make sense to have Configure.pl check if the required functionality were actually available. Nick's suggestion is one way to keep the required version at 5.005.
If we've a good reason to keep the compatibility wiht 5.005, I'd like to do so. OTOH, if there's no good reason I'm fine with tossing it. IIRC at least one reasonably modern Unix ships with 5.005 as its base perl, but I don't remember which one. (If nobody can think of it we can jump to 5.6.0 as our minimum base perl requirement)
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