raise the minimum version requirement for Perl to 5.18.0
Sounds sensible to me, for the reasons you outlined.
But, I think it would be wise to give users a way to override the
requirement, of course with the caveat "don't blame us if it doesn't
work", unless there are true requirements such
On 1/29/21 12:03 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
Perl 5.18.0 was released in May 2013. (Perl 5.6.0 was released in
March 2000.) I selected it as the minimum because the Perl
maintainers recommend all users of older interpreters upgrade to at
least this version, due to security fixes (see
I propose that, as of the next major feature release of both Autoconf
and Automake, we raise the minimum version requirement for Perl to
5.18.0. (Currently it is 5.6.0.) On the Autoconf side, the version
number and timeframe for the first release with this change are still
TBD but it would *not*
