[Koha-devel] Minimum version of Perl

[Lars Wirzenius]

On pe, 2010-05-14 at 09:17 -0400, Galen Charlton wrote:
> At present, the minimum version of Perl required by Koha is 5.6.1.
> Since MARC::Record requires 5.8.2, at the very least Koha's
> requirement should be 5.8.2, and 5.8.8 (the current stable release in
> the 5.8.x series) would be better.  Are there any common platforms
> where this would be an issue?  What about going further and bumping up
> to 5.10.0?

Debian has 5.8.8 in the etch release, which is old enough that it no
longer has security support from Debian (and therefore anyone using it
really should upgrade to lenny). Lenny has 5.10.0, squeeze has 5.10.1,
and Debian is working on getting 5.12 into unstable, possibly into
squeeze.

So from a Debian point of view, everything up to and including 5.10.0 is
fine.