[Geany-devel] Perl 5.8 vs. 5.10 and default Perl Compile command

[Nick Treleaven]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:24:45 +0200
Dominic Hopf <dmaphy at googlemail.com> wrote:

> > It seems with 5.10 this module doesn't exist anymore or at least
> > isn't shipped anymore with the default Perl distribution.
> > But instead, Perl 5.10 has a -c command line option which also
> > does a syntax check. I guess this is enough for our needs to be used as
> > the *default* Compile command.
> > 
> > Since Perl 5.10 isn't really new anymore, I think we could
> > change the Compile command. 
> > 
> > But I guess some of you, Nick, Dominic, ... know Perl much better
> > than me and so can maybe judge a bit better.
> 
> I think it's okay to change the default compile command to
> `perl -c "%f"`. I actually already did this for me a few weeks ago. :)

Sounds good - this actually works with my perl-5.8.8-32.fc8.

Regards,
Nick