Sys::Syslog with SA 3.0 and Perl 5.8.7?

[Dr Robert Young]

I have Perl 5.8.3 installed.  I am going to be installing SA 2.6, and 
then perform an upgrade to SA 3.0 as part of a test before attempting a 
"real" upgrade on an existing production system.

I noted in O'Reilly's Spamassassin book that Sys::Syslog is listed as 
being required. I also saw this on another www source regarding SA 
3.0.1 specifically.

So when using CPAN to get Sys::Syslog with Perl 5.8.3, it states that 
it requires Perl 5.8.7 as a depedancy.

Just checking to be sure that the later version of Perl is needed if 
one is intending to use SA 2.6 and/or 3.0 with sendmail? If Perl needs 
to be updated as well, then additional testing is going to be needed as 
Perl gets used in other places "besides" the SA tool.