Re: Time to drop support for Perl 5.8?

On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 3:54 AM, Lyle <..hidden..> wrote:

The problem with this is that RHEL tends to be behind the curve with Perl versions.

And PostgreSQL versions too. I dont think you can run LedgerSMB 1.3 on RHEL 5.x at present unless you upgrade PostgreSQL from other repos. You would have to upgrade PostgreSQL separately. RHEL 5.0 finally fully expires in 2020, but production support phase 1 has already ended.

At present RHEL 6 comes with Perl 5.10. My thinking is we can support older versions of LSMB on RHEL a lot easier than we can support newer versions of LSMB on the same system, and after we EOL something there's no reason why commercial support can't fill the gap..

Best Wishes,

Chris Travers

On 23/03/2014 09:18, Chris Travers wrote:
Hi everyone;

Perl is moving onward and many modules have Perl 5.8 support only provisionally (Moose for example, already has a stated policy of only support 5.8 on a best effort basis). Perl 5.10 has a number of additional features we might want to use over time and by not be stuck with 5.8 ways of doing things.

I would like to suggest a policy going forward of bumping up the major Perl version once a year or so, starting with 5.10 for 1.5.

Any feedback or objections?

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Chris Travers

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