Item11878: require perl 5.8.8 for 1.2.0

RequirePerl588

-- SvenDowideit - 19 May 2012

Changing this to use 5.008_008. The v5.8.8 version fails on OSX Snow Leopard, which ships with perl 5.10.0.

-- GeorgeClark - 14 Nov 2012

Sven... Do we still need the "use 5.6 / require 5.008" combination, or can this just be a simple "use 5.008_008"

-- GeorgeClark - 14 Nov 2012

when i did it, i was following a recomendation that suggested that doing it this way would give the most newbie friendly errors

other than that, no idea.

-- SvenDowideit - 11 Feb 2013

I think this is now a moot point. We now require version 0.77, so perl will understand 5.8 nomenclature. The use 5.6 was to deal with really old perl, that doesn't understand the newer style version strings. "version 0.77" updates the 5.10.0 version handling.

-- GeorgeClark - 12 Feb 2013