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author | Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> | 2018-03-16 18:07:48 -0400 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2018-03-16 16:07:37 -0700 |
commit | 14f437f3385db68275124d82bb9686cb6f75f67c (patch) | |
tree | b9324a9e35628ee69e7cfdd3a724033509be836f /Documentation/RelNotes | |
parent | Git 2.17-rc0 (diff) | |
download | tgif-14f437f3385db68275124d82bb9686cb6f75f67c.tar.xz |
RelNotes: add details on Perl module changes
Document changes to core and non-core Perl module handling in 2.17.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt | 14 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt index c828d37345..085bf1dba1 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt @@ -75,6 +75,20 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * The build procedure for perl/ part has been greatly simplified by weaning ourselves off of MakeMaker. + * Perl 5.8 or greater has been required since Git 1.7.4 released in + 2010, but we continued to assume some core modules may not exist and + used a conditional "eval { require <<module>> }"; we no longer do + this. Some platforms (Fedora/RedHat/CentOS, for example) ship Perl + without all core modules by default (e.g. Digest::MD5, File::Temp, + File::Spec, Net::Domain, Net::SMTP). Users on such platforms may + need to install these additional modules. + + * As a convenience, we install copies of Perl modules we require which + are not part of the core Perl distribution (e.g. Error and + Mail::Address). Users and packagers whose operating system provides + these modules can set NO_PERL_CPAN_FALLBACKS to avoid installing the + bundled modules. + * In preparation for implementing narrow/partial clone, the machinery for checking object connectivity used by gc and fsck has been taught that a missing object is OK when it is referenced by a |