From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
Cc: | Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, John Naylor <johncnaylorls(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: What about Perl autodie? |
Date: | 2024-02-11 00:36:36 |
Message-ID: | 1914220.1707611796@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> On 2024-02-08 Th 11:08, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> On 8 Feb 2024, at 16:53, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)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.
> +1 from me too. We kept 5.8 going for a while because it was what the
> Msys (v1) DTK perl was, but that doesn't matter any more I think.
I've reconfigured longfin, which was using perl 5.14.0 on all
branches, to use 5.10.1 on the pre-v16 branches (and it did pass).
This seems like a good change even if we don't pull the trigger on
the above proposal --- although if we don't, maybe I should see
if I can get 5.8.3 to build on that machine.
regards, tom lane
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