On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Zeno Gantner <zeno.gant...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I just asked the question on IRC whether it would make sense to allow > the use of modern Perl (5.10) in the Padre source code. > I know it is not necessary (we currently do without), but it also may > improve our life, e.g. because of the smart match and the defined-or > operator. > > http://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/2007/perl-5.10.0.html > > We ask a lot from our users in terms of CPAN package and Wx > dependencies, so it may not be too presuming to ask them to use Perl > 5.10 or later. > It has been released three years ago. > > What is the current sentiment about this?
We won't be able to correctly syntax-highlight our own code. I'd say upgrade Scintilla first and revisit the issue after that. The other issue IMHO is that once we have up-to-date binary distributions including perl as well then we can be ok with a newer version Perl. An the third issue, do Debian/Fedora/Mandriva already have 5.10 at least or will they be stuck in an older version of Padre? IMHO that would not be a good idea so probably we should stick to the version of perl (or older) where our major downstream distributors are. Gabor _______________________________________________ Padre-dev mailing list Padre-dev@perlide.org http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev
