[snipping a lot of mutual agreement]
At 2022-11-01T00:08:06-0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
> I didn't see a one-line "require" as bending over backwards,
> but since you pointed out that the version it specified was little
> better than a wild guess, I agree it's inappropriate to retain it.
Well, _mayb
On 10/31/22, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2022-10-30T23:41:43-0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
>> I'm less convinced by this -- unless a difficult roadblock stands in
>> the way, I think modern groff ought to work or fail gracefully on an
>> obsolete platform -- but the prior two points are convincing
Hi John,
At 2022-10-31T18:23:25+1100, John Gardner wrote:
> > Perl 5.6.1 is incredibly old (April 2001). I cannot find any
> > evidence of any current distribution supporting it.
>
> IIRC, declaring a program version is recommended practice, as future
> versions of Perl may have different defaul
Hi Dave,
At 2022-10-30T23:41:43-0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
> On 10/30/22, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Perl 5.6.1 is incredibly old (April 2001). I cannot find any
> > evidence of any current distribution supporting it.
>
> I'm less convinced by this -- unless a difficult roadblock stands in
>
>
> Perl 5.6.1 is incredibly old (April 2001). I cannot find any evidence of
> any current distribution supporting it.
IIRC, declaring a program version is recommended practice, as future
versions of Perl may have different defaults w.r.t opt-in behaviours like `use
warnings` and `use strict`. T
On 10/30/22, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> They'll be told at configure time, because we have an Autoconf test for
> it.
Reasonable.
> Furthermore, I've rewritten grog nearly completely since Bernd last
> touched it. I don't have any idea what Perl 5.6(.1) features Bernd had
> in mind when he ad
At 2022-10-30T21:08:08-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> I'd prefer to audit the script as you describe than to restore this
> arcane feature to it; I had to find out about it the hard way.
Here's a patch.
commit 4acdddb9d4db1c20d7cc4f5f4f0ce2908e20c271 (HEAD -> master)
Author: G. Branden Robins
Hi Dave!
At 2022-10-30T19:50:38-0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
> > commit 6f2e3678366b33ee35cbedf79198c92e88bae29b
> > Author: G. Branden Robinson
> > AuthorDate: Mon Oct 24 17:08:35 2022 -0500
> >
> > [grog]: Drop relic code and comments.
>
> The comment seems inessential, but I don't believe the
> commit 6f2e3678366b33ee35cbedf79198c92e88bae29b
> Author: G. Branden Robinson
> AuthorDate: Mon Oct 24 17:08:35 2022 -0500
>
> [grog]: Drop relic code and comments.
The comment seems inessential, but I don't believe the two lines of
code are relics.
> -require v5.6;
Pre-5.6 perls are prob
