#1878: Increase minimum perl 5 version to 5.10.0
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Reporter: coke | Owner: cotto
Type: RFC | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 2.11
Component: configure | Version: 2.10.0
Severity: medium | Keywords:
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Comment(by cotto):
I'm all for using modern software on machines under my control, but
raising the requirement would exclude potential contributors who are
either stuck with an ancient Perl or don't care to upgrade for whatever
reason. I'm not above saying "tough luck" as we currently do to anyone
running 5.6.x, but only if we have a sufficiently good reason to do so.
A sufficiently good reason in this case would be that supporting 5.8.x
causes us some kind of pain or holds back Parrot's development.
Using a bundled version of a core module isn't a big deal, and while it's
nice to move code out of Parrot, the module also won't do any harm sitting
there in its current state. Without a better reason my inclination is to
reject this ticket.
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