Re: [PATCH 1/2] maint: require perl 5.6.2 throughout

[Stefano Lattarini]

On 03/04/2012 04:14 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> That version of perl is quite old already, so it should be OK to
> require it.  More importantly, it is the older perl versions the
> developers can currently use for testing, thus it's safer and more
> honest to just require it throughout.  And anyway, we were already
> requiring it in Automake::Getopt, which implied that both automake
> and aclocal wouldn't have worked in practice with an older perl
> version.
>
I've now actually verified that perl 5.6.0 is good enough to run automake,
so I've tweaked this patch to only require 5.6.  Attached is the updated
patch.

Regards,
  Stefano

0001-maint-require-perl-5.6-throughout.patch
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