Should Bugzilla 2.18 require Perl 5.6.1?

Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai asmodai at wxs.nl
Thu Jun 24 04:59:14 UTC 2004


-On [20040511 15:42], David Miller (justdave at bugzilla.org) wrote:
[Higher Perl version 'n Unicode]

>Although working Unicode support (as much as Bugzilla needs) can be 
>accomplished with Perl 5.6.1, as long as you don't need to do character 
>set conversions.  But inbound email support will likely require charset 
>conversions (because we'll need to convert whatever charset the email is 
>in to Unicode before putting it in the database).  Any conversion code 
>from legacy databases would certainly require 5.8 as well.

Inbound email support isn't for 2.18, right?

So for 2.18 we can stil get away with 5.6.x, but the requirement for 2.20
will be 5.8.x?

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