[Koha-devel] Koha now requires Perl 5.20

[Jonathan Druart]

And after the revert we are going to talk about the version to support:
5.10 has been release on 2007 and end of life since 2009
"Please note that branches earlier than 5.20 are no longer supported,
though fixes for urgent issues, for example severe security problems, may
still be issued."

Which version would seem acceptable to you?
To me 5.20 sounds way too old already...

On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 at 07:57 Jonathan Druart <
jonathan.druart at bugs.koha-community.org> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> I did not confirm Mark's assumption on pushing but made sure 5.20 was
> available in most of the GNU/Linux distros I know.
> If this restriction is not necessary it does not make sense to keep it, I
> am going to revert the patch later today.
>
> However I am pretty sure 5.10 is not enough.
>
> If you have knowledge about how to install Koha on OpenSuse it would be
> great to update the wiki, the existing page is from 2010. We have people
> asking on #koha or the mailing list sometimes.
>
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
>
>
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 at 22:41 David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> I tracked the change back to
>> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20104. 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> What does everyone else think?
>>
>>
>>
>> David Cook
>>
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