[rt-devel] RT development and perl versions?

[Thomas Sibley]

On 05/01/2013 03:20 AM, Martin Wheldon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just a general question on RT development, would it be acceptable to
> set a preference to use a version of perl greater than 5.10.1 in a RT
> extension?
> 
> FOA: use v5.10.1;
> 
> The reason I ask is that I'm considering using the perl switch 
> functionality: 
> http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsyn.html#Switch-Statements

Sure, it's acceptable if you're not targeting installs on older Perl
versions.

RT will be bumping the core Perl dep in 4.2 (to what yet, we've not
decided).