On 2021-02-18, Karl Berry wrote:
> I think the right thresholds are 5.10 for absolute minimum and 5.16
> for 'we aren't going to test with anything older than this'
>
> I appreciate the effort to increase compatibility with old versions.
>
> I imagine you could provide Digest::SHA "interna
I think the right thresholds are 5.10 for absolute minimum and 5.16
for 'we aren't going to test with anything older than this'
I appreciate the effort to increase compatibility with old versions.
I imagine you could provide Digest::SHA "internally", or test for it as
Nick suggested, but
For me it would be good to keep the minimum perl as 5.10, as the 5.18
is newer than the one I have on my system, although to be fair, I am
currently using autoconf 2.69 and do not intent to upgrade it in close
future, unless some software that I need demands it, which seems
unlikely.
Hi Zack,
On 2021-02-17, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 5:54 PM Karl Berry wrote:
>> But, I think it would be wise to give users a way to override the
>> requirement, of course with the caveat "don't blame us if it doesn't
>> work", unless there are true requirements such that not
On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 5:54 PM Karl Berry wrote:
I don't know why, but I only received this message today.
> But, I think it would be wise to give users a way to override the
> requirement, of course with the caveat "don't blame us if it doesn't
> work", unless there are true requirements such
On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 5:54 PM Karl Berry wrote:
I don't know why, but I only received this message today.
> raise the minimum version requirement for Perl to 5.18.0
>
> Sounds sensible to me, for the reasons you outlined.
>
> But, I think it would be wise to give users a way to override th
raise the minimum version requirement for Perl to 5.18.0
Sounds sensible to me, for the reasons you outlined.
But, I think it would be wise to give users a way to override the
requirement, of course with the caveat "don't blame us if it doesn't
work", unless there are true requirements such t
On 1/29/21 12:03 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
Perl 5.18.0 was released in May 2013. (Perl 5.6.0 was released in
March 2000.) I selected it as the minimum because the Perl
maintainers recommend all users of older interpreters upgrade to at
least this version, due to security fixes (see
https://perl
I propose that, as of the next major feature release of both Autoconf
and Automake, we raise the minimum version requirement for Perl to
5.18.0. (Currently it is 5.6.0.) On the Autoconf side, the version
number and timeframe for the first release with this change are still
TBD but it would *not*
