On 2023-03-30 17:02, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
If we did that, the guideline would be that Autoconf users can run
with Perl 5.6+ whereas Autoconf developers need 5.10+. This sort of
thing is routine.
This is a possibility.
OK, let's go with that, as it is a more-conservative change from
Autoco
Paul Eggert wrote:
On 2023-03-30 12:40, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
The closest I have seen so far was the use of the regex \K escape in
build-aux/help-extract.pl, except that the tool in question only
needs to be run by Autoconf maintainers because its outputs are
included in release tarballs
O
On 2023-03-30 12:40, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
The closest I have seen so far was the
use of the regex \K escape in build-aux/help-extract.pl, except that the
tool in question only needs to be run by Autoconf maintainers because
its outputs are included in release tarballs
Oh, in that case anot
Paul Eggert wrote:
On 2023-03-30 06:06, Zack Weinberg wrote:
Are you, Jacob Bachmeyer, volunteering to maintain the Perl scripts in
autoconf and automake, for at least the next several years, and in
particular to test compatibility with these very old versions of Perl?
Although testing Jacob's
Gavin Smith wrote:
On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 09:29:30PM -0500, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
Do we need a direct configure test for "has Perl module"?
AC_PERL_MODULE([Digest::SHA]) would need to execute `$PERL -e "require
Digest::SHA"` and consider Digest::SHA available if that returns success.
Using
On 2023-03-30 06:06, Zack Weinberg wrote:
Are you, Jacob Bachmeyer, volunteering to maintain the Perl scripts in
autoconf and automake, for at least the next several years, and in
particular to test compatibility with these very old versions of Perl?
Although testing Jacob's little patch with o
Nick Bowler wrote:
On 2023-03-30, Zack Weinberg wrote:
[...]
Because I don't think anyone else currently active in development has
either the time or the expertise for it. (Just as a data point here,
the oldest version of Perl that I myself have any access to, presently,
is 5.*16*, and I do
On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 09:29:30PM -0500, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
> Do we need a direct configure test for "has Perl module"?
> AC_PERL_MODULE([Digest::SHA]) would need to execute `$PERL -e "require
> Digest::SHA"` and consider Digest::SHA available if that returns success.
> Using Perl's -M option
On 2023-03-30, Zack Weinberg wrote:
[...]
> Because I don't think anyone else currently active in development has
> either the time or the expertise for it. (Just as a data point here,
> the oldest version of Perl that I myself have any access to, presently,
> is 5.*16*, and I don't know how long
On Mar 29, 2023, at 20:29, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
>
> Digest::SHA was installable from CPAN long before it was a core module
More to the point, it’s _still_ installable that way, and the current version’s
minimum Perl requirement is 5.3.0, from 1996:
https://metacpan.org/pod/Digest::SHA
I
On Wed, Mar 29, 2023, at 11:45 PM, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
>
> I have since looked into this a bit further. The standard advice for
> these features in Perl is to use POD, which already has a well-
> developed system for extracting manpages instead of needing help2man,
> and the Pod::Usage module (
Paul Eggert wrote:
On 2023-03-29 16:32, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
Is there anything more needed from me to get similar fixes into
Autoconf?
I started to do that, by installing this:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/commit/?id=e2220ed33e69d8bc6504e3f6279894afe33a99a5
into Autoc
Paul Eggert wrote:
On 2023-03-29 16:32, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
Is there anything more needed from me to get similar fixes into
Autoconf?
I started to do that, by installing this:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/commit/?id=e2220ed33e69d8bc6504e3f6279894afe33a99a5
into Autoc
On 2023-03-29 16:32, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
Is there anything more needed from me to get similar fixes into Autoconf?
I started to do that, by installing this:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/commit/?id=e2220ed33e69d8bc6504e3f6279894afe33a99a5
into Autoconf master on Savannah
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