From d13a73e383076636534e10ba799af0c9a2b85357 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Todd Zullinger Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 14:30:10 -0500 Subject: perl: bump the required Perl version to 5.8.1 from 5.8.0 The following commit will make use of a Getopt::Long feature which is only present in Perl >= 5.8.1. Document that as the minimum version we support. Many of our Perl scripts will continue to run with 5.8.0 but this change allows us to adjust them as needed without breaking any promises to our users. The Perl requirement was last changed in d48b284183 (perl: bump the required Perl version to 5.8 from 5.6.[21], 2010-09-24). At that time, 5.8.0 was 8 years old. It is now over 21 years old. Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- INSTALL | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'INSTALL') diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 4b42288882..06f29a8ae7 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ Issues of note: - A POSIX-compliant shell is required to run some scripts needed for everyday use (e.g. "bisect", "request-pull"). - - "Perl" version 5.8 or later is needed to use some of the + - "Perl" version 5.8.1 or later is needed to use some of the features (e.g. sending patches using "git send-email", interacting with svn repositories with "git svn"). If you can live without these, use NO_PERL. Note that recent releases of -- cgit v1.2.3