From: Jon Dowland Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:29:05 +0000 (+0100) Subject: how important is perl 5.10? X-Git-Tag: 3.20100427~20^2~7^2~3 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?p=ikiwiki.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=f5466ad7173459bc9481781d8f54ba969f56a516 how important is perl 5.10? --- diff --git a/doc/setup/discussion.mdwn b/doc/setup/discussion.mdwn index b71263dae..2000c5dfb 100644 --- a/doc/setup/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/setup/discussion.mdwn @@ -245,3 +245,12 @@ Thank you! I'm not a Perl programmer, so what's your opinion: is this behavior a I am experiencing the same problem "/etc/ikiwiki/custom: failed to set up the repository with ikiwiki-makerepo " on Debian squeeze with perl5.10.0. Upgrading to ikiwiki 3.10 fixes it. -- [Albert](http://www.docunext.com/) + +---- + +Just a note, perl 5.10 isn't packaged as part of RHEL or thus CentOS nor EPEL, +so it's not especially trivial to satisfy that requirement for ikiwiki on +those platforms, without backporting it from Fedora or building from source. +However, I have an ikiwiki 3.20100403 running on RHEL-4 supplied 5.8.8 without +(seemingly too much) complaint. How strong is the 5.10 requirement? what +precicely breaks without it? -- [[Jon]]