Require Perl 5.26.0
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> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
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#!/usr/bin/perl
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# Copyright (C) 2006, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
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# License: GPL v2 or later
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use 5.008001;
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require v5.26;
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use warnings $ENV{GIT_PERL_FATAL_WARNINGS} ? qw(FATAL all) : ();
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use strict;
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use vars qw/ $AUTHOR $VERSION
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