Summary

Remove Perl5 support

Review Request #1793 — Created Sept. 19, 2022 and submitted Sept. 19, 2022, 6:59 a.m.

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grim

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gplugin/gplugin

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default

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pidgin

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Description

This was originally added to keep feature parity with purple2, but it has been
a huge pain, there's no solution on macOS, it randomly breaks, and there never
really was a lot of adoption of it in purple2.

Also the IEEE and Stack Overflow surveys from 2022 have Perl ranked between the
20th and 30th most popular programming language so I feel comfortable remove it.

If necessary we can always pull back out of version control and bring it back up
to date.

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Summary	ID
Remove Perl5 support This was originally added to keep feature parity with purple2, but it has been a huge pain, there's no solution on macOS, it randomly breaks, and there never really was a lot of adoption of it in purple2. Also the IEEE and Stack Overflow surveys from 2022 have Perl ranked between the 20th and 30th most popular programming language so I feel comfortable remove it. If necessary we can always pull back out of version control and bring it back up to date.	9dcf4d478d221c436ad09370459bf63ed0cd7892

Summary

Remove Perl5 support

This was originally added to keep feature parity with purple2, but it has been a huge pain, there's no solution on macOS, it randomly breaks, and there never really was a lot of adoption of it in purple2. Also the IEEE and Stack Overflow surveys from 2022 have Perl ranked between the 20th and 30th most popular programming language so I feel comfortable remove it. If necessary we can always pull back out of version control and bring it back up to date.

9dcf4d478d221c436ad09370459bf63ed0cd7892

Ship it!

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Ship It!
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Status:: Completed