On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 03:06:49 -0000, "Greg Sabino Mullane" <g...@turnstep.com> wrote:
> One thing I see bandied about a lot is that Perl 5.14 is highly preferred. > However, it's not clear exactly what the gains are and how bad 5.12 is > compared to 5.14, how bad 5.10 is, how bad 5.8 is, etc. Right now 5.8 is > the required minimum for DBI: should we consider bumping this? I know TC > would be horrified to see us attempting to talk about Unicode support > with a 5.8.1 requirement, but how much of that will affect database > drivers? I have no idea myself. Unicode-6.0 and Unicode improvements in general are *THE* reason for me (our company) to plan for a 5.10.1 -> 5.14.2 update I use Unicode a lot, and we require 5.8.4 as an absolute minimum when dealing with Unicode. 5.8.1 is not good enough. > Another aspect to think about that came up during some offline DBD::Pg > talks was the need to support legacy scripts and legacy data. While the > *correct* thing is to blaze forward and use Do Things Correctly everywhere, > I think we at least need some prominent knobs so that we can maintain > backwards compatiblity for existing scripts that expect a bunch of > Latin1, or need the data to come back in the current, undecoded, > un-utf8-flagged way. > > - -- > Greg Sabino Mullane g...@turnstep.com -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using 5.00307 through 5.14 and porting perl5.15.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23 and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.1, 11.0 .. 11.4 and AIX 5.2 and 5.3. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
