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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
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Subject: Re: upcoming perl v5.12 requirement...
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Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 03:44:35PM -0400, Eric Wong wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> As long as we can set the low bar at 5.16, I'm good with that. Lore will
> eventually roll onto newer platforms than CentOS7, but there's still a lot of
> yak left to shave before that happens. :)

No problem.  The Perl requirement will crawl forward as slowly as
enterprise/LTS distros go.  I have no plans to skip 5.14, either
(haven't started looking at perl514*delta, and won't until we're
on 5.12).