Drop support for Perl 5.8.x

[ikedas]

Expected Behavior

Sympa will support Perl 5.10.1 or later.

Current Behavior

Sympa has to support Perl 5.8.1 or later.

[racke]

Facts: Even Perl 5.10 is more than 11 years old. CentOS 6 comes with Perl 5.10. So there is really no need to support anything older.

[ikedas]

Precisely, Perl 5.10.0 was a version a bit messed. We'd be better to abandon it (RHEL/CentOS have done).

[racke]

I don't really care for old Perl versions, what would be your suggestion for the minimum Perl version? And if we decide on one, I suggest that we inform the community beforehand the next release.

[ikedas]

As I wrote at first, 5.10.1 is my suggestion.

[ldidry]

I agree. One of the strength of Sympa is that it supports old Perl but dropping 5.8 is kind of needed if we want to be able to use some modern (11 years old though, but it’s better than 5.8 which is 17 years old) Perl syntax, but there is no rush to jump on cutting-edge Perl versions. 5.10.1 is enough for now.

[ikedas]

A patch merged. This issue will be closed when the next beta (maybe 6.2.45b.1) builds sanely.