Re: Thoughts on using Text::Template for our autogenerated code?

On 30 Mar 2023, at 19:06, Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com> wrote:

Some other digging around shows that the module has been around since 1996 (Perl5 was 1994) and hasn't had a feature update (or any update for that matter) since 2003. So it should meet our baseline 5.14 requirement, which came out in 2011.

I assume you then mean tying this to 1.44 (or another version?), since AFAICT
there has been both features and bugfixes well after 2003?
	https://metacpan.org/dist/Text-Template/changes

I don't think that's remotely a starter. Asking people to install an old and possibly buggy version of a perl module is not something we should do.

I think the barrier for this is pretty high. I try to keep module requirements for the buildfarm client pretty minimal, and this could affect a much larger group of people.

cheers

andrew

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