> 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.
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Daniel Gustafsson