On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Peter Sinnott wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 01:43:02AM -1000, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 11:31:17AM +0100, Peter Sinnott wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 08:43:41PM -0700, Joshua Hoblitt via RT wrote: > > > > Does anyone have an old enough Perl to test if this is still an issue? > > > > > > Prior to 5.6.0 and 'our' package variables had to be declared with the > > 'vars' pragma. See `perldoc vars`. > > > > It was only a very very half hearted attempt to get it to work. > Lacking the revision variable will only become a problem if it gets > as far as actually compiling some C code. > > > > If I run make it fails as it can not find Pod::Usage. > > > I can see a few Pod::* modules under lib so I presume > > > policy is to add perl module depencies there and not > > > to require the user to install them locally. Can someone > > > add Pod::Usage under ./lib. > > > > If you can make a convincing argument that 5.005xx should be supported > > that is possible - but why?
Parrot requires at least perl-5.6, and that's now documented in the README file. (See RT ticket perl #30095). -- Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]