RT development and perl versions?

RT Developers
1

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

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Martin Wheldon
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2

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:
perlsyn - Perl syntax - Perldoc Browser

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).