[PATCH] Re: [perl #42616] Parrot won't build with perl-5.6.

2007-04-29 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:47:55 -0400 (EDT) On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Allison Randal via RT wrote: > 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

Re: [PATCH] Re: [perl #42616] Parrot won't build with perl-5.6.

2007-04-27 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Jerry Gay via RT wrote: > 5.8.4 seems reasonable, given that nobody seems to care much about > dropping 5.6 support. however, before applying this patch, we should > consider a deprecation cycle, to warn folks that the next release > version will require a newer version of per

Re: [PATCH] Re: [perl #42616] Parrot won't build with perl-5.6.

2007-04-27 Thread jerry gay
On 4/27/07, Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 tim

[PATCH] Re: [perl #42616] Parrot won't build with perl-5.6.

2007-04-27 Thread Andy Dougherty
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 jus