Re: minimum perl version

On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 10:46 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
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> John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> > On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 6:47 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> I've just switched longfin to use built-from-source perl 5.14.0.
>
> > In that case, here is a quick update with commit message. Not yet any
> > change for MSVC, but I can put together something later.
>
> Looks reasonable just by eyeball, did not test.
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> > Since we're much less willing to support older Windows and Visual
> > Studio versions, maybe it's low-enough risk defer the check to the
> > Meson conversion? I understand our MSVC process will then go away much
> > more quickly than autoconf...
>
> Agreed --- the MSVC scripts are on a pretty short leash now.
> Not clear it's worth fixing them for this point.  If we've
> failed to get rid of them by the time v16 release approaches,
> maybe it'd be worth doing something then.

Okay, pushed with no further MSVC changes, after doing a round on CI.

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