Re: r8368 and SWIG version requirements.

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Ben Reser wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 04:10:28PM -0800, Ben Reser wrote:
> > If we really need 1.3.19 then I'll merge r8368 into the #1690 issue and
> > update the patch to accept only 1.3.19. And remove my veto.
>
> Okay we need 1.3.19. It looks like that prior to 1.3.18 SWIG wouldn't
> build properly against Perl 5.8. We require Perl 5.8 or newer. So we
> need 1.3.19. I'll be updating Issue #1690's patch to require 1.3.19 or
> newer. Merge r8368 into the same vote. And removing my vetos in a bit.

OK, I'd like to poll the developers and users:

Is it important enough to have Subversion use the perl bindings on RedHat
7.3? If so it sounds like RedHat 7.3 users will have to upgrade their
perl to perl latest (or at least 5.8.0) from the current version of 5.6.1
or even perl-5.6.0.X.

Any other options? That's a pretty big change (maybe for the better, but
I don't know enough about it to evaluate backwards compatability issues
for Perl).

Poll Question: Should I put the perl 5.8.0 requirement into the RedHat 7.3
Subversion RPMs? (I'll have to build latest version of perl and distribute
it.)

I've currently got a patch that builds on RedHat 9 and should work on
RedHat 7.3 (once I rebuild perl) that generates a subversion-perl RPM.

   Thanks!

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