<DIV>ActiveState gives us Windows types a choice between 5.6.1 and 5.8.3. Shouldn't bother us a bit.<BR><BR><B><I>David Miller <justdave@bugzilla.org></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">In hunting down various bugs, we've run into some more taint-related <BR>problems that are essentially bugs in Perl 5.6.0 that were fixed in <BR>5.6.1. There are ways to work around them, but they're not fun.<BR><BR>How many people are still using Perl 5.6.0 or older?<BR><BR>Bugzilla 2.16.x currently requires Perl 5.00503 or newer. The 2.17 <BR>branch (which will soon be 2.18) currently already requires Perl 5.6.0 <BR>or newer. Would it hurt too many people if we go the extra step up to <BR>require Perl 5.6.1?<BR><BR>I'm not aware of any distros still shipping 5.6.0. Mac OS X was the <BR>last one I knew of that was still shipping Perl 5.6.0, and they're <BR>shipping 5.8.1 now.<BR><BR>-- <BR>Dave Miller Project Leader, Bugzilla Bug Tracking System<BR>http://www.justdave.net/ http://www.bugzilla.org/<BR><BR>-<BR>To view or change your list settings, click here:<BR><HTTP:
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