314470 - Require Perl 5.8

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: Installation & Upgrading, enhancement)

Description

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

So that we can take advantage of various perl 5.8 features, such as Switch, "use fields" and the utf8 capabilities of perl 5.8, we are thinking that we'll require perl 5.8 for 2.24.

Comment 1

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

For the 2.22 release notes, we should note that 2.22 will be the last version to support perl 5.6.1.

Comment 2

[Frédéric Buclin]

(In reply to comment #1)
> For the 2.22 release notes, we should note that 2.22 will be the last version
> to support perl 5.6.1.
> 

Is that "official"? I see no discussion about this point and I don't remember any discussion about it. And no discussion means nothing official for me.

Comment 3

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Added as a deprecation warning to the Bugzilla 2.22 Release Notes in bug 322960.

Comment 4

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Attachment: v1

Comment 5

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Comment on attachment 213670 [details] [diff] [review]
v1

Yep, 5.8.0 has been out longer now than 5.6.1 had been when we decided to require it, and all of the major distroes are shipping at least 5.8.0 these days.

Comment 6

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

We had a thread on this on developers@ a while back.  Please reply to it to let people know we've gone ahead and done it.

Comment 7

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Hooray!

Checking in checksetup.pl;
/cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/checksetup.pl,v  <--  checksetup.pl
new revision: 1.474; previous revision: 1.473
done
Checking in docs/xml/Bugzilla-Guide.xml;
/cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/docs/xml/Bugzilla-Guide.xml,v  <--  Bugzilla-Guide.xml
new revision: 1.62; previous revision: 1.61
done
Checking in t/001compile.t;
/cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/t/001compile.t,v  <--  001compile.t
new revision: 1.14; previous revision: 1.13
done

Comment 8

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Added to the release notes on bug 349423.