On Thu 08 Jul 2004 19:47, Tim Bunce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 10:39:37AM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote:
> > 
> > My question for today is whether you think it is reasonable for DBI 
> > v2, which is already expected to break a few things, to simply 
> > require 5.8.x at the outset, or perhaps specifically 5.008004 
> 
> No.
> 
> I'm happy for users to be told that some things, like Unicode, won't
> work right without 5.8.x. But I'm not willing to leave 5.6.x users behind.

You won't be leaving them behind. They still have DBI-1.xx

FWIW as per customer request, I am depending on 5.8.4 and up since two weeks.
You can imagine that's a little bit earlier than I planned. And it's not UTF-8
that makes me need 5.8.4

> Tim.

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