Re: question about r8708 (Perl warning pragmas)

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 11:57:49PM -0600, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> Some time ago, Ben Collins-Sussman and I looked at this and wondered
> why the "require 5.6.0;" line wasn't controversial. Ben Reser
> mentioned once that it wasn't, but I don't remember if he said why.
> Was it that the scripts already effectively require Perl 5.6.0 (by
> virtue of depending on some feature), so making the requirement
> explicit doesn't actually add any restrictions? Or was there some
> other reason why forcing >= 5.6.0 is okay?

Okay here's the logic:

5.6.0 will be 4 years old on March 23rd, 2004.

We already require 5.8 for bindings and building on windows.

The version issue was brought up by Blair:
http://www.contactor.se/~dast/svn/archive-2004-02/0233.shtml

If you read the thread there was some comments about it but nobody
really objected strongly.

> Oh, and, why am I asking this now? :-)
>
> Because Mike Pilato and I were looking at r8708 in 1.0.x/STATUS, to
> possibly vote on it. However, we want to make sure that it's not
> adding a Perl version requirement that we didn't previously have. Or,
> if it *is* adding a requirement, then it's one that's been discussed &
> agreed on. We couldn't find anything in the list archives, so we're
> asking here.

Well they are hook scripts. So it's not a requirement per se. Nobody
is forced to use these. If someone really wants to use an older perl
they could always switch them back to the way they are now. And anyone
currently using the scripts will still have them working with the older
perl.

I'd be surprised if there are any commonly used platforms that don't at
least come with 5.6.0 (except for Windows which is a whole different
thing but you know what I mean).

-- 
Ben Reser <ben@reser.org>
http://ben.reser.org
"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking."
- H.L. Mencken
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