Hi, Split off from the meson thread at https://postgr.es/m/990067.1662138678%40sss.pgh.pa.us
On 2022-09-02 13:11:18 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > > On 2022-09-02 14:17:26 +0700, John Naylor wrote: > >> + # FIXME: -output option is only available in perl 5.9.3 - but that's > >> + # probably a fine minimum requirement? > >> > >> Since we've retired some buildfarm animals recently, it seems the > >> oldest perl there is 5.14? ... which came out in 2011, so it seems > >> later on we could just set that as the minimum. > > > At the moment we document 5.8.3 as our minimum, supposedly based on some > > buildfarm animal - but that's probably outdated. > > Yeah, definitely. prairiedog was the only animal running such an old > version, and it's gone. I don't think we have anything testing ancient > bison or flex anymore, either. I'm a fan of actually testing whatever > we claim as the minimum supported version of any tool, so there's some > work to be done here, on buildfarm config or docs or both. 5.8.3 is from 2004-Jan-14, that's impressive :). I don't see any benefit in setting up a buildfarm animal running that old a version. For the meson stuff it'd suffice to set 5.9.3. as the minimum version for plperl (or I could try to work around it). However, supporting a perl version from 2006-Jan-28 doesn't strike me as particularly useful either. Relevent somewhat recent discussion / work: https://postgr.es/m/87y278s6iq.fsf%40wibble.ilmari.org https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/E1mYY6Z-0006OL-QN%40gemulon.postgresql.org I looked at which buildfarm animals currently use 5.14 (mentioned by John), and it's frogfish, snapper and skate. The latter two do build with plperl. I started a query on the buildfarm machine to collect the perl versions, but it's just awfully slow... Greetings, Andres Freund
