Perl 5.8 requirement for compiling on windows?

From: Marios Vodas <mvodas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Perl 5.8 requirement for compiling on windows?
Date: 2011-07-04 16:30:00
Message-ID: CAMuJg2Segf9RYDSdRZHK5XaVfUEqym4Ez+aRdtpdWVs1Y7v_NA@mail.gmail.com
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Hello,

I want to ask why is there a requirement for 5.8 version of Perl to compile
under windows?
In this page of the documentation
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/install-windows-full.html#AEN23848it
sais: "Note: version 5.8 is required".
I was able to compile PostgreSQL 9.0.4 using Active Perl 5.14 (only some
warnings but the build was successful).
Should I necessarily use 5.8?

Thank you

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