| Message ID | 20241023004600.1645313-12-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | New |
| Headers | show |
| Series | Update versions of libcurl and Perl | expand |
On October 22, 2024 8:46 PM, brian m. carlson wrote: >Our platform support policy states that we require "versions of dependencies which >are generally accepted as stable and supportable, e.g., in line with the version used >by other long-term-support distributions". Of Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, and SLES, the >four most common distributions that provide LTS versions, the version with >mainstream long-term security support with the oldest Perl is 5.26.0 in SLES 15.6. > >This is a major upgrade, since Perl 5.8.1, according to the Perl documentation, was >released in September of 2003. It brings a lot of new features that we can choose >to use, such as s///r to return the modified string, the postderef functionality, and >subroutine signatures, although the latter was still considered experimental until >5.36. > >This change was made with the following one-liner, which intentionally excludes >modifying the vendored modules we include to avoid conflicts: > > git grep -l 'use 5.008001' | grep -v 'LoadCPAN/' | xargs perl -pi -e 's/use >5.008001/require v5.26/' > >Use require instead of use to avoid changing the behavior as the latter enables >features and the former does not. > >Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Please be aware that the most recent version of Perl available on NonStop is currently 5.26.3. On the ia64 variant, we will not see a newer version *ever*. The x86 platform Supports 5.30.3 and may evolve. By the end of 2025, the ia64 platform goes away, so as long as we can keep 5.26.x as a minimum, that would be acceptable. Thanks, Randall
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 6e0321ff0e..54d7528f9e 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ Issues of note: - A POSIX-compliant shell is required to run some scripts needed for everyday use (e.g. "bisect", "request-pull"). - - "Perl" version 5.8.1 or later is needed to use some of the + - "Perl" version 5.26.0 or later is needed to use some of the features (e.g. sending patches using "git send-email", interacting with svn repositories with "git svn"). If you can live without these, use NO_PERL. Note that recent releases of diff --git a/contrib/diff-highlight/DiffHighlight.pm b/contrib/diff-highlight/DiffHighlight.pm index 636add6968..3d061bc0b7 100644 --- a/contrib/diff-highlight/DiffHighlight.pm +++ b/contrib/diff-highlight/DiffHighlight.pm @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ package DiffHighlight; -use 5.008001; +require v5.26; use warnings FATAL => 'all'; use strict; diff --git a/contrib/mw-to-git/Git/Mediawiki.pm b/contrib/mw-to-git/Git/Mediawiki.pm index ff7811225e..629c0cea44 100644 --- a/contrib/mw-to-git/Git/Mediawiki.pm +++ b/contrib/mw-to-git/Git/Mediawiki.pm @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ package Git::Mediawiki; -use 5.008001; +require v5.26; use strict; use POSIX; use Git; diff --git a/git-archimport.perl b/git-archimport.perl index f5a317b899..6d0169cb6a 100755 --- a/git-archimport.perl +++ b/git-archimport.perl @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ =head1 Devel Notes =cut -use 5.008001; +require v5.26; use strict; use warnings; use Getopt::Std; diff --git a/git-cvsexportcommit.perl b/git-cvsexportcommit.perl index 1e03ba94d1..edf02f9964 100755 --- a/git-cvsexportcommit.perl +++ b/git-cvsexportcommit.perl @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ #!/usr/bin/perl -use 5.008001; +require v5.26; use strict; use warnings; use Getopt::Std; diff --git a/git-cvsimport.perl b/git-cvsimport.perl index 211ec8459a..e10ad5334e 100755 --- a/git-cvsimport.perl +++ b/git-cvsimport.perl @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ # The head revision is on branch "origin" by default. # You can change that with the '-o' option. -use 5.008001; +require v5.26; use strict; use warnings; use Getopt::Long; diff --git a/git-cvsserver.perl b/git-cvsserver.perl index 124f598bdc..a4ad9a5d2d 100755 --- a/git-cvsserver.perl +++ b/git-cvsserver.perl @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ #### #### -use 5.008001; +require v5.26; use strict; use warnings; use bytes; diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl index c835d4c11a..c4d12bebc8 100755 --- a/git-send-email.perl +++ b/git-send-email.perl @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ # and second line is the subject of the message. # -use 5.008001; +require v5.26; use strict; use warnings $ENV{GIT_PERL_FATAL_WARNINGS} ? qw(FATAL all) : (); use Getopt::Long; diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl index 01e7a70de1..9c7c629932 100755 --- a/git-svn.perl +++ b/git-svn.perl @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ #!/usr/bin/perl # Copyright (C) 2006, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> # License: GPL v2 or later -use 5.008001; +require v5.26; use warnings $ENV{GIT_PERL_FATAL_WARNINGS} ? qw(FATAL all) : (); use strict; use vars qw/ $AUTHOR $VERSION diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl index b09a8d0523..da1486cab2 100755 --- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl +++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ # # This program is licensed under the GPLv2 -use 5.008001; +require v5.26; use strict; use warnings; # handle ACL in file access tests diff --git a/perl/Git.pm b/perl/Git.pm index 667152c6c6..6f47d653ab 100644 --- a/perl/Git.pm +++ b/perl/Git.pm @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ =head1 NAME package Git; -use 5.008001; +require v5.26; use strict; use warnings $ENV{GIT_PERL_FATAL_WARNINGS} ? qw(FATAL all) : (); diff --git a/perl/Git/I18N.pm b/perl/Git/I18N.pm index 475e90a6df..ab46edb608 100644 --- a/perl/Git/I18N.pm +++ b/perl/Git/I18N.pm @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ package Git::I18N; -use 5.008001; +require v5.26; use strict; use warnings $ENV{GIT_PERL_FATAL_WARNINGS} ? qw(FATAL all) : (); BEGIN { diff --git a/perl/Git/LoadCPAN.pm b/perl/Git/LoadCPAN.pm index 8c7fa805f9..61254fddbb 100644 --- a/perl/Git/LoadCPAN.pm +++ b/perl/Git/LoadCPAN.pm @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ package Git::LoadCPAN; -use 5.008001; +require v5.26; use strict; use warnings $ENV{GIT_PERL_FATAL_WARNINGS} ? qw(FATAL all) : (); diff --git a/perl/Git/Packet.pm b/perl/Git/Packet.pm index d896e69523..00fd9c484a 100644 --- a/perl/Git/Packet.pm +++ b/perl/Git/Packet.pm @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ package Git::Packet; -use 5.008001; +require v5.26; use strict; use warnings $ENV{GIT_PERL_FATAL_WARNINGS} ? qw(FATAL all) : (); BEGIN { diff --git a/t/t0202/test.pl b/t/t0202/test.pl index 47d96a2a13..5085a0eda5 100755 --- a/t/t0202/test.pl +++ b/t/t0202/test.pl @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ #!/usr/bin/perl -use 5.008001; +require v5.26; use lib (split(/:/, $ENV{GITPERLLIB})); use strict; use warnings; diff --git a/t/t5562/invoke-with-content-length.pl b/t/t5562/invoke-with-content-length.pl index 9babb9a375..211e29fade 100644 --- a/t/t5562/invoke-with-content-length.pl +++ b/t/t5562/invoke-with-content-length.pl @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -use 5.008001; +require v5.26; use strict; use warnings; diff --git a/t/t9700/test.pl b/t/t9700/test.pl index 2e1d50d4d1..58a9b328d5 100755 --- a/t/t9700/test.pl +++ b/t/t9700/test.pl @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ #!/usr/bin/perl use lib (split(/:/, $ENV{GITPERLLIB})); -use 5.008001; +require v5.26; use warnings; use strict; diff --git a/t/test-terminal.perl b/t/test-terminal.perl index b8fd6a4f13..862bb8f395 100755 --- a/t/test-terminal.perl +++ b/t/test-terminal.perl @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ #!/usr/bin/perl -use 5.008001; +require v5.26; use strict; use warnings; use IO::Pty;
Our platform support policy states that we require "versions of dependencies which are generally accepted as stable and supportable, e.g., in line with the version used by other long-term-support distributions". Of Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, and SLES, the four most common distributions that provide LTS versions, the version with mainstream long-term security support with the oldest Perl is 5.26.0 in SLES 15.6. This is a major upgrade, since Perl 5.8.1, according to the Perl documentation, was released in September of 2003. It brings a lot of new features that we can choose to use, such as s///r to return the modified string, the postderef functionality, and subroutine signatures, although the latter was still considered experimental until 5.36. This change was made with the following one-liner, which intentionally excludes modifying the vendored modules we include to avoid conflicts: git grep -l 'use 5.008001' | grep -v 'LoadCPAN/' | xargs perl -pi -e 's/use 5.008001/require v5.26/' Use require instead of use to avoid changing the behavior as the latter enables features and the former does not. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> --- INSTALL | 2 +- contrib/diff-highlight/DiffHighlight.pm | 2 +- contrib/mw-to-git/Git/Mediawiki.pm | 2 +- git-archimport.perl | 2 +- git-cvsexportcommit.perl | 2 +- git-cvsimport.perl | 2 +- git-cvsserver.perl | 2 +- git-send-email.perl | 2 +- git-svn.perl | 2 +- gitweb/gitweb.perl | 2 +- perl/Git.pm | 2 +- perl/Git/I18N.pm | 2 +- perl/Git/LoadCPAN.pm | 2 +- perl/Git/Packet.pm | 2 +- t/t0202/test.pl | 2 +- t/t5562/invoke-with-content-length.pl | 2 +- t/t9700/test.pl | 2 +- t/test-terminal.perl | 2 +- 18 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)