Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>> This is similar to Jeff King's jk/drop-ancient-curl series in that
>> we're dropping perl releases that are rarely tested anymore, however
>> unlike those patches git still works on e.g. 5.8.8 (I couldn't build
>> anything older).
[...]
>
Hi,
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> This is similar to Jeff King's jk/drop-ancient-curl series in that
> we're dropping perl releases that are rarely tested anymore, however
> unlike those patches git still works on e.g. 5.8.8 (I couldn't build
> anything older).
FWIW I think this is a good cha
Eric Wong writes:
> Fair enough, I haven't run 5.8 in a while, either. One concern
> I have is it makes reviewing more difficult as the language gets
> bigger and (even more) unfamiliar constructs pop up. This is
> probably more important for git as most of us are not dedicated
> Perl hackers.
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> I think for any given external dependency of git.git it makes sense to
> just pick a version, not say that this script requires perl so-and-so,
> this one python so-and-so, or curl/openssl so-and-so etc.
Agreed. Any version support changes should be tree-wide.
>
On Sun, Dec 24 2017, Eric Wong jotted:
[Removed Petr Baudis from CC, his suse.cz E-Mail address
is bouncing]
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 24 2017, Jeff King jotted:
>> > As far as this actual perl change goes, I don't have a strong opinion. I
>> > agree it would be nice to e
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 24 2017, Jeff King jotted:
> > As far as this actual perl change goes, I don't have a strong opinion. I
> > agree it would be nice to eventually move forward, and your reasoning
> > about what constitutes "old" seems sane. But we also don't write much
>
On Sun, Dec 24 2017, Jeff King jotted:
> On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 05:44:00PM +, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
>> This is similar to Jeff King's jk/drop-ancient-curl series in that
>> we're dropping perl releases that are rarely tested anymore, however
>> unlike those patches git still works
On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 05:44:00PM +, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> This is similar to Jeff King's jk/drop-ancient-curl series in that
> we're dropping perl releases that are rarely tested anymore, however
> unlike those patches git still works on e.g. 5.8.8 (I couldn't build
> anything old
On Sat, Dec 23 2017, brian m. carlson jotted:
> On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 05:44:00PM +, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>> The reason to do this is to be able to use features released with perl
>> in the last decade, 5.10 was a major feature release including things
>> like new regex features, s
On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 05:44:00PM +, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> The reason to do this is to be able to use features released with perl
> in the last decade, 5.10 was a major feature release including things
> like new regex features, state variables, the defined-or operator
> etc.[3]
>
On December 23, 2017 12:44 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
> In late 2010 I bumped our perl version dependency from 5.6.* to 5.8.0[1]. Git
> had been failing for a while on <5.8, and it was suspected that nobody cared
> enough to keep using it, which turned out to be true.
>
> Follow that u
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