From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from localhost (dcvr.yhbt.net [127.0.0.1]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79C781F4B4; Tue, 13 Apr 2021 19:44:35 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 15:44:35 -0400 From: Eric Wong To: meta@public-inbox.org Subject: upcoming perl v5.12 requirement... Message-ID: <20210413194435.GA3371@dcvr> References: <20210413192920.42920-1-e@80x24.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20210413192920.42920-1-e@80x24.org> List-Id: On a side note, I'm strongly considering moving to Perl 5.12 after public-inbox 1.7 is released. perl 5.12.4 will be a decade old in a few months (however 5.12.5 was Nov 2012). It seems the various 5.12.x releases had fewer breaking bugfixes than 5.10.0 => 5.10.1, so "use v5.12" should be fine. The main reason I want 5.12 is it enables strict implicitly, reducing syscalls and startup time: strace -c perl -Mstrict -e exit # 208 syscalls strace -c perl -Mv5.12 -e exit # 186 syscalls It also allows "delete local" and some other things, but I'm not yet sure about the "unicode_strings" feature bit...