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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] start depending on Perl 5.10.1+
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Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:
> The one minor, (and likely irrelevant) downside to this change
> would be any of code which relies on the 'fields' pragma for
> pseudo-hash performance benefits is out-of-luck since
> pseudo-hashes were removed in Perl 5.9.
> 
> Our only use of the 'fields' pragma is from Danga::Socket
> (and descendent) classes.  Fwiw, I have never used Perl 5.8 on
> public-inbox myself, either.

Even testing "maint-5.10" or "v5.10.1" from perl.git is proving
challenging.  Changes in the toolchain, cflags missing, Errno.pm
not generated correctly, and some math differences.  The usual
stuff that comes from abandoned branches a reasonably up-to-date
OS (Debian stable).  I wonder if I might have better luck on
CentOS 6 or 7.

At least v5.30.0 and blead seem alright