Re: compile errors in new PL/Pler

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>>>
>>> I am going to bet dollars to donuts that it is your perl version. 
>>> Perl 5.00503 is ancient. Try upgrading to at least 5.6.
>>
>> Not much I can do about that - it's builtin as part of FreeBSD 4.x 
>> series.
> 
> And I bet its still the 'standard' for alot of ppl out there running it 
> ... its only within the past couple of months that we've even upgraded 
> mail.postgresql.org to it, and only because I wanted to see if it would 
> improve majordomo's performance (which it didn't) ...

So we have three choices as I see it:
1) revert the change
2) require some minimally recent version of perl
3) fix the issue in place

Preferences?

Joshua/Andrew -- do you want to take a shot at making this work on perl 
5.00503?

Joe