On 2024-02-08 Th 11:08, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> On 8 Feb 2024, at 16:53, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> 2. Don't wait, migrate them all now. This would mean requiring
>> Perl 5.10.1 or later to run the TAP tests, even in back branches.
>>
>> I think #2 might not be all that radical. We have nothing older
>> than 5.14.0 in the buildfarm, so we don't really have much grounds
>> for claiming that 5.8.3 will work today. And 5.10.1 came out in
>> 2009, so how likely is it that anyone cares anymore?
> I would vote for this option, if we don't run the trailing edge anywhere where
> breakage is visible to developers then it is like you say, far from guaranteed
> to work.
>
+1 from me too. We kept 5.8 going for a while because it was what the
Msys (v1) DTK perl was, but that doesn't matter any more I think.
cheers
andrew
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