At 12:00 PM 7/22/2002 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: >On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:21:09AM +0100, Graham Barr wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:14:15AM +0100, Sam Vilain wrote: > > > "Sean O'Rourke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > languages/perl6/README sort of hides it, but it does say that "If > you have > > > > Perl <= 5.005_03, "$a += 3" may fail to parse." I guess we can upgrade > > > > that to "if you have < 5.6, you lose". > > > > > > I notice that DBI no longer supports Perl releases <5.6. Seems enough > > > people are happy that 5.005 is obsolete. > > > > I am not sure I agree with that. I have been met with a lot of resistance > > from users todo the same with my modules. Some even still want 5.004, > > but thats asking too much IMO. > >In October 2000 I believed that 5.005 maintenance *is* important for the >acceptance of perl6, and I still do now:
I agree with this, and until there is a formal discussion and announcement I'm still assuming the minimum for Parrot is 5.005 (_03). At some point we will have bootstrapped Parrot and its languages enough that we can start writing _with_ Parrot, so then all you will need to "build" is the Parrot VM. That'll be fun. :) -Melvin
