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).
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Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
