[Bioperl-l] dependencies on perl version

[Leon Timmermans]

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:24 AM, Fields, Christopher J
<cjfields at illinois.edu> wrote:
> Right, it took ~8 yrs to go from 5.8 to 5.10.  I'd like to point out that Python users are in the same boat: the Python version for CentOS 5 is 2.4.3, and Biopython requires a minimum of python 2.5 (and recommends python 2.7).
>
> We can always state that perl 5.8 is supported for the upcoming Bioperl release, but we're dropping v5.8 support for any future releases.

Sounds reasonable. These things shouldn't come as a surprise.

I suspect that the thing that will save us is that most of these
people install it once and then never upgrade.

Leon