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INSTALL: require Perl 5.26.0
Our platform support policy states that we require "versions of dependencies which are generally accepted as stable and supportable, e.g., in line with the version used by other long-term-support distributions". Of Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, and SLES, the four most common distributions that provide LTS versions, the version with mainstream long-term security support with the oldest Perl is 5.26.0 in SLES 15.6. This is a major upgrade, since Perl 5.8.1, according to the Perl documentation, was released in September of 2003. It brings a lot of new features that we can choose to use, such as s///r to return the modified string, the postderef functionality, and subroutine signatures, although the latter was still considered experimental until 5.36. Update the INSTALL file to reflect our new dependency requirement. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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- A POSIX-compliant shell is required to run some scripts needed
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for everyday use (e.g. "bisect", "request-pull").
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- "Perl" version 5.8.1 or later is needed to use some of the
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- "Perl" version 5.26.0 or later is needed to use some of the
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features (e.g. sending patches using "git send-email",
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interacting with svn repositories with "git svn"). If you can
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live without these, use NO_PERL. Note that recent releases of

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