On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 04:43:17PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > I'd like to suggest that raise that minimum requirement for Perl
> > to 5.8 for 8.3, as Perl 5.8 will be about five years old by then.
>
> Well, we're still supporting some OS versions that are way over five
> years old. ISTM the real question is what do we buy if we make such
> a restriction? Getting rid of a few small ifdefs doesn't seem like
> an adequate reason. Is there some major improvement we could make?
UTF-8 handling much improved in 5.8. Just anecdotally, a former Very
Large Client is really suffering from having to maintain two branches
of every piece of Perl code in the house that touches anything UTF-8.
Cheers,
D
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