Re: Required versions (was: install problem with Gtk2-Perl-0.04)

[Göran Thyni <goran kirra net>]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 07:59:29AM -0600, Steve Fox wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 04:28, Markus Jais wrote:
> > now it works. somehow perl 5.8.0 was deleted on the
> > machine where I compiled and now there is only 5.6.1.
> > but after installing the ExtUtils::MakeMaker from CPAN
> > everything worked fine. thanks.
>
> So Gtk2-Perl will require Perl 5.8.0 or higher? I hope this is only
> temporary because that will greatly hinder my migration to it. There are
> a lot of machines out there still at 5.6.x and they won't upgrade their
> Linux distro just to run my app.

Nope, and Markus didn't say so,
I will require ExtUtils::MakeMaker version 6.0 or newer
which is installable from CPAN. 6.0.5 is the latest, 6.0.3
is distributed with perl 5.8.0

On the other hand perl version prior to 5.8.0 is not
very good at handling Unicode and text in gtk+ 2.x is all
unicode based. So 5.6.x might work but 5.8 is better.

/göran