Re: perl <5.8.2 Getopt::Long

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote on Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:21:25PM CEST:
> >>> "RW" == Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

>  RW> I don't know if it's too strict to require perl-5.8.2, given the
>  RW> systems that have an older native versions.  
> 
> It is.  People seem very leery of upgrading their Perl installations.
> Automake 1.10 will be the first version to drop support for perl 5.005, and
> we couldn't do it earlier because people protested.  Jumping 5.8.2 certainly
> sounds too fast.

OK.

>  RW> So, how about this?
>  RW> Would you rather have two tests and warn also users with perl x,
>  RW> 5.6 <= x < 5.8.2, in configure.ac?
> 
> No, your patch seems enough to me.  Nobody really cares about
> "--" anyway, it's not worth such a warning.

Good, I've applied the patch as-is.  Thanks for the review!

Cheers,
Ralf