On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Allison Randal via RT wrote: > Will Coleda wrote: > > > > My take: our long term goal is to eliminate the dependency we have on > > perl. Let's not spend more time making it work with 5.6, but instead, > > devote that time to furthering the the long term goal. I vote we just up > > the (temporary!) requirement. > > Agreed. I hate yielding compatibility, but it makes sense in this case > (since we're likely to eventually require that any Perl 5 code in the > repository be able to run on the Parrot implementation of Perl 5).
Fair enough. I suggest the following patch. (The 5.8.4 version is arbitrary. It's the oldest 5.8.x I happen to have installed for easy testing. It should perhaps be replaced with whatever version regular Parrot contributors are going to be using.) --- parrot-current/README 2007-04-17 19:15:19.000000000 -0400 +++ parrot-andy/README 2007-04-27 09:24:12.000000000 -0400 @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Get it from http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/downloads.jsp -You'll also need Perl 5.6.1 or above to run various configure and build +You'll also need Perl 5.8.4 or above to run various configure and build scripts. For most of the platforms that we are supporting initially, --- parrot-current/Configure.pl 2007-04-12 03:15:13.000000000 -0400 +++ parrot-andy/Configure.pl 2007-04-27 09:25:59.000000000 -0400 @@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ =cut -use 5.006_001; +use 5.008_004; # 5.8.[0-3] might also work, but are untested. use strict; use warnings; use lib 'lib'; -- Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
