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

[Enrico Tröger]

Hey guys,

I just noticed, newer Perl 5.10 distributions don't have the
B/Bytecode module included anymore. This is what we used in
the past as the default Compile command[1] for the filetype Perl.
The idea was to perform a syntax check this way.

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.

Any opinions?


[1] perl -MO=Bytecode,-H,-o"%f"c "%f"

Regards,
Enrico

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