Re: Document how to set up TAP tests for Perl 5.8.8

On 18 November 2016 at 08:15, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 18 November 2016 at 07:10, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 2:39 PM, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>>> I wasted a bunch of time getting set up to test for such an ancient
>>> Perl and would love to save the next person along the hassle by
>>> documenting the easy way.
>>
>> It looks sensible to mention that in the README, so +1.
>>
>> By the way, would it matter to mention ways to install perlbrew? For
>> example, I just bumped into http://install.perlbrew.pl by looking
>> around, though I don't doubt that most people would just use cpan with
>> "install App::perlbrew" for example. For OSX users with brew and
>> without macports that would matter.
>
> The docs linked mention it, so I figured that'd probably do. Though I
> notice it's only mentioned in the "configuration" section not under
> "installation", so maybe it's worth adding yeah.

Updated docs patch. Since configure checks for 5.8.0 that's what's
specified. Anyone who wants to argue about the actual version we
_should_ target can do so elsewhere, all I'm interested in is what we
_do_ officially target so I can document this.

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