On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 01:44:07PM -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote: > because lib/Parrot/Makefile.PL contains > > WriteMakefile( > 'NAME' => 'Parrot::PakFile2', > 'VERSION_FROM' => 'PakFile2.pm', # finds $VERSION > > and PakFile2.pm says (among other things) > > require 5.005_62; > use warnings; > > our @ISA = qw(Exporter DynaLoader); > > none of which will work with 5.005. > > Is it perhaps time to require 5.6.x?
It's probably a better idea not to use 5.6.x's h2xs to generate extensions. 5.8 has a flag to generate extensions that don't use any 5.6isms in their boilerplate code, and (oddly enough) 5.005_03's h2xs doesn't generate any 5.6isms in the boilerplate code either :-) Also, 5.6's h2xs generates buggy code for constant(), which is enough of a reason to avoid for the general case of extension building. I'm unconvinced that 5.6 offers any features over 5.005 that we really need (5.005 introduces qr//) and it seems to me that we keep the barriers to building parrot as low as practical, to encourage the most participation. A greater number of OSes have perl >5.005 installed by default than >5.6 Nicholas Clark -- Even better than the real thing: http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/
