Hi, 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? Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton gmcharlt@gmail.com
Hi,
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? 5.8.8 has been around for a few years and most platforms (even the more conservative enterprise ones) are on at least that. It might be a good
On 14/05/10 14:17, Galen Charlton wrote: base to recommend as it resolved some long standing oddities if I remember right. What ever people feel, I definitely thing we should say 3.4 will be at least 5.10. Cheers Colin -- Colin Campbell Chief Software Engineer, PTFS Europe Limited Content Management and Library Solutions +44 (0) 208 366 1295 (phone) +44 (0) 7759 633626 (mobile) colin.campbell@ptfs-europe.com skype: colin_campbell2 http://www.ptfs-europe.com
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Galen Charlton <gmcharlt@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
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?
I'm definitely for 5.8.8 at a minimum. However, it appears that some of the test suite requires 5.10 based on a problem kmkale ran into the other day. I'm not sure what code and don't have a 5.8 install to test on atm. In any case, we should determine for sure which version is required to run all Koha code successfully and go with that OR determine what code requires 5.10 and make it compatible with 5.8 prior to 3.2 stable. Kind Regards, Chris
On 14/05/10 16:24, Chris Nighswonger wrote:
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Galen Charlton<gmcharlt@gmail.com> wrote:
In any case, we should determine for sure which version is required to run all Koha code successfully and go with that OR determine what code requires 5.10 and make it compatible with 5.8 prior to 3.2 stable.
Bug 4269 refers to DBD::SQLite2 which is a problem (but most folk can run koha happily without) Colin -- Colin Campbell Chief Software Engineer, PTFS Europe Limited Content Management and Library Solutions +44 (0) 208 366 1295 (phone) +44 (0) 7759 633626 (mobile) colin.campbell@ptfs-europe.com skype: colin_campbell2 http://www.ptfs-europe.com
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.
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