On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 9:28 PM, James Keenan via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri Oct 03 08:55:12 2008, coke wrote: >> This is a patch-response to r31585, which required a particular >> version of Storable in one file. >> >> Attached, find a patch which bumps our core perl requirement to 5.8.6, >> the first time this particular version of Storable was included as a >> core module (`corelist -a Storable`). It: >> [snip] >> We've been talking about doing this bump to avoid this problem for >> some time. I'd rather fail during the initial attempt to run configure >> than have someone with 5.8.0 -then- fail by missing the Storable >> requirement below. >> > > I recall some discussion about going to 5.8.4 -- but not 5.8.6. 5.8.4 > is the level of Perl included in many distributions such as Debian. Are > you really sure you want to go to 5.8.6 just for one module? Why not > require that version of Storable directly? > > Thank you very much. > kid51 >
The version of Storable under discussion may have changed, which may have driven the change up in perl version. In the spirit of the recent US VPOTUS debates, here are some talking point responses: 5.8.6 is nearly 4 years old.[0] perl is only required for the build, not the runtime; joe debian user wouldn't need to upgrade their perl, just install the parrot package. parrot is eventually going to not require perl to build. I'd rather keep our perl-based requirements and code as simple as possible. [0] http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/37324 . Not really a reason TO upgrade, but certainly something to consider. -- Will "Coke" Coleda
