On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 15:57:18 +0100 (BST) Martin Radford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,
> At Fri Oct 24 19:38:50 2003, Matt Kettler wrote: > > > goes. There's serious discussion about dumping support for any perl under > > 5.6 in future releases. Apparently trying to make SA work under 5.00x, > > There's a statement in SA 2.60's README that says: > > "The SpamAssassin 2.6x release series will be the last set of releases to > officially support perl versions earlier than perl 5.6.0." > > I've seen a comment on this list (probably from one of the developers) > that stated that it was quite likely that the Perl 5.005 support may > well be the first thing ripped out of the codebase for 2.70. > > Given that none of the developers use 5.005 regularly (the reason why > we currently get so many minor bugs that hit 5.005 users), it seems > unlikely that that SA 2.70 will work under 5.005 even if the current > compatibility code isn't removed by then. Maybe the easiest solution is to install perl 5.8.1 under /opt (/opt/bin/perl, etc...), and install SA and the prerequisite modules there. The downside is remembering which perl interpreter to use for SA-related functions. -- Bob ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The SF.net Donation Program. Do you like what SourceForge.net is doing for the Open Source Community? Make a contribution, and help us add new features and functionality. Click here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
