On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 04:43:17PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'd like to suggest that raise that minimum requirement for Perl > > to 5.8 for 8.3, as Perl 5.8 will be about five years old by then. > > Well, we're still supporting some OS versions that are way over five > years old. ISTM the real question is what do we buy if we make such > a restriction? Getting rid of a few small ifdefs doesn't seem like > an adequate reason. Is there some major improvement we could make?
UTF-8 handling much improved in 5.8. Just anecdotally, a former Very Large Client is really suffering from having to maintain two branches of every piece of Perl code in the house that touches anything UTF-8. Cheers, D -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Skype: davidfetter Remember to vote! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
