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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I just tried to work on Koha master on OpenSUSE 42.3, which was released on 2017-07-26, but I’m being prevented from installing Koha, because OpenSUSE 42.3 uses Perl 5.18.2 rather than Perl 5.20. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I tracked the change back to <a href="https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20104">https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20104</a>. The claim was that C4::Log::cronlogaction uses caller and that caller doesn’t exist before Perl 5.20, but that’s not true. The caller function has been in Perl for an extremely long time. You can find it in RHEL 6.9 which uses Perl 5.10. I just used it in Perl 5.18.2. So that doesn’t seem like a good justification for requiring a minimum version of Perl 5.20.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have a feeling that this change is going to bite other people developing and using Koha around the world. There are people running Koha on openSUSE, Suse Enterprise Linux, Fedora, Red Hat, CentOS… probably other distros as well. Are we really going to exclude everyone that doesn’t use recent Debian-based distros from using newer versions of Koha?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It seems to me that this decision was made without community discussion. Maybe I’m wrong, but I figured I’d bring it up with everyone. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>For my part, I’m just going to hack around this requirement for now, but I don’t really like that as a long-term solution. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What does everyone else think?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>David Cook<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Systems Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Prosentient Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>72/330 Wattle St<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Ultimo, NSW 2007<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Office: 02 9212 0899<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Direct: 02 8005 0595<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>