From de8128203a5340db397dadaee91bc504c2a539bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Levitte Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 22:06:17 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] State the minimum Perl version that our scripts will work with Reviewed-by: Rich Salz --- README.PERL | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.PERL b/README.PERL index c2db0190ab..184b3771a0 100644 --- a/README.PERL +++ b/README.PERL @@ -23,8 +23,9 @@ - on Linux distributions based on RPMs, you will need to install 'perl-core' rather than just 'perl'. - It is highly recommended that you have at least Perl version 5.10 - installed. + You MUST have at least Perl version 5.10.0 installed. This minimum + requirement is due to our use of regexp backslash sequence \R among + other features that didn't exist in core Perl before that version. Notes on Perl on Windows ------------------------ -- 2.25.1