Re: PPC SHA-1 Updates in "pu"

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

  Hi,

Dear diary, on Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 12:07:21PM CEST, I got a letter
where Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> said that...
> On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> > All the modules we depend on should come bundled with Perl since 5.8.1.
> > Now, I'm not sure what our "cutoff" point is, and even if it is
> > something like 5.6.0 whether we can just require users of Perl older
> > than 5.8.1 (which should be only some rare and obscure systems anyway)
> > to install the modules from CPAN.
> 
> NO! It is _wrong_ to require users to upgrade, when a little more work on 
> our side would fix it. Requiring users to upgrade is a proactive way to 
> get rid of new users.
> 
> And old ones. If you would require me to upgrade to Perl 5.8.1, I would 
> rather stop upgrading git.

  please read it again - I'm not requiring you to upgrade to Perl 5.8.1.
I'm just saying that if you have Perl older than 5.8.1, you might need
to install some extra modules from CPAN.

  Now, if that's not acceptable either that's fine by me and I can
adapt, I just need to know at which point we _will_ require you to
upgrade or install extra modules.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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