[oi-dev] Perl 5.34

[Tim Mooney]

In regard to: [oi-dev] Perl 5.34, Klaus Ziegler said (at 11:36am on Mar 12,...:

> Hi Team,
>
> it's now quite some time ago, since Tim Mooney has provided the
> new perl version 5.34 to oi-userland.
> Unfortunately it is still not used for new projects/components, see
> postgres-14 :-( , I'm nearly done removing perl versions: 5.22, 5.24
> from oi-userland on SPARC. During this process I modified more than
> 50 components and noted the changes, I will do my best to get all
> these #PRs submitted asap,

Those patches are welcome.

I had hoped that the right set of steps to just switch OI to perl 5.34
would be more straightforward, but they really haven't been.

It hasn't helped that I've been very busy with projects for the past
couple months.

One thing that would help would be if someone could confirm whether the
build errors I see for illumos-gate with

 	https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/pull/7733

occur for others too, or if it's something specific to my environment.
Considering how long it takes me to rebuild illumos-gate in my VM build
environment every time I test, it's been time-consuming to even get to
that point.

Note that the removal of 5.22 is also tied to the process to obsolete
32 bit end-user components, at least for things that link to perl.  As
we make progress on that project, removing 5.22 becomes a little easier.

Tim
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