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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 One thing I see bandied about a lot is that Perl 5.14 is highly preferred. However, it's not clear exactly what the gains are and how bad 5.12 is compared to 5.14, how bad 5.10 is, how bad 5.8 is, etc. Right now 5.8 is the required minimum for DBI: should we consider bumping this? I know TC would be horrified to see us attempting to talk about Unicode support with a 5.8.1 requirement, but how much of that will affect database drivers? I have no idea myself. Another aspect to think about that came up during some offline DBD::Pg talks was the need to support legacy scripts and legacy data. While the *correct* thing is to blaze forward and use Do Things Correctly everywhere, I think we at least need some prominent knobs so that we can maintain backwards compatiblity for existing scripts that expect a bunch of Latin1, or need the data to come back in the current, undecoded, un-utf8-flagged way. - -- Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com/ PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 201109092305 http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEAREDAAYFAk5q1DkACgkQvJuQZxSWSsj+nQCg9TvEVVrkz8GVvfUlanXJc0X7 vhkAoJEoJFSHXUkcoKI28a7aZH5HUd/s =Wpyl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----Thread Previous | Thread Next