Re: Thoughts on using Text::Template for our autogenerated code? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Thoughts on using Text::Template for our autogenerated code?
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Msg-id 4592fd5c-3a63-f425-28b9-df3bf6eb22f7@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: Thoughts on using Text::Template for our autogenerated code?  (Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>)
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On 2023-03-30 Th 15:06, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
On 30 Mar 2023, at 19:06, Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com> wrote:
Some other digging around shows that the module has been around since 1996 (Perl5 was 1994) and hasn't had a feature update (or any update for that matter) since 2003. So it should meet our baseline 5.14 requirement, which came out in 2011.
I assume you then mean tying this to 1.44 (or another version?), since AFAICT
there has been both features and bugfixes well after 2003?
	https://metacpan.org/dist/Text-Template/changes


I don't think that's remotely a starter. Asking people to install an old and possibly buggy version of a perl module is not something we should do.

I think the barrier for this is pretty high. I try to keep module requirements for the buildfarm client pretty minimal, and this could affect a much larger group of people.


cheers


andrew

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