On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 10:28, Dan Sugalski wrote: > 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)
Probably not the one you were thinking of, but a data point: FreeBSD 4-STABLE ships with 5.00503 in "core" with more modern perls in the ports collection. The 5.x series, due to be stable late this year or early next, moves to only having Perl in ports. The ports collection is tracking 5.6.x and 5.8.x. --kag
