On 2013.10.01 8:33 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
On 10/01/2013 11:10 AM, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
Thanks for that link. Forgot about those. Tom Christiansen recommends at least
5.12. That may be too far however. Anyone know of a page that lists the
current installed Perl on the major distros?
SL 6.4 (clone of RHEL 6.4) has 5.10.1, so I really think that would be a max.
Same with CentOS 6.4 (latest), also a RHEL clone.
Debian 6 Squeeze (2011) had Perl 5.10.1; Debian 7 Wheezy (latest) has Perl
5.14.2.
Mac OS X Snow Leopard comes with Perl 5.10.0. A large fraction of Mac OS X
users are also not upgrading past Snow Leopard for now for various reasons, and
this version should still be supported.
Depending on whether the Perl 5.10.0 vs 5.10.1 differences are an issue for
DBD::Pg, I would say you should support 5.10.0 if you're supporting 5.10.1. I
strongly recommend supporting 5.10.1 for a few years yet.
As to supporting any Perl 5.8.x with the new version, I don't have any strong
opinion either way.
-- Darren Duncan
