Re: RFC: Bump minimum Perl to 5.18.0 for next major release of both Autoconf and Automake

2021-02-18 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2021-02-18, Karl Berry wrote: > I think the right thresholds are 5.10 for absolute minimum and 5.16 > for 'we aren't going to test with anything older than this' > > I appreciate the effort to increase compatibility with old versions. > > I imagine you could provide Digest::SHA

Re: RFC: Bump minimum Perl to 5.18.0 for next major release of both Autoconf and Automake

2021-02-18 Thread Karl Berry
I think the right thresholds are 5.10 for absolute minimum and 5.16 for 'we aren't going to test with anything older than this' I appreciate the effort to increase compatibility with old versions. I imagine you could provide Digest::SHA "internally", or test for it as Nick suggested, but

Re: RFC: Bump minimum Perl to 5.18.0 for next major release of both Autoconf and Automake

2021-02-18 Thread alexandre schenberg
For me it would be good to keep the minimum perl as 5.10, as the 5.18 is newer than the one I have on my system, although to be fair, I am currently using autoconf 2.69 and do not intent to upgrade it in close future, unless some software that I need demands it, which seems

Re: RFC: Bump minimum Perl to 5.18.0 for next major release of both Autoconf and Automake

2021-02-18 Thread Nick Bowler
Hi Zack, On 2021-02-17, Zack Weinberg wrote: > On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 5:54 PM Karl Berry wrote: >> 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 that