remove some obvious barriers to perl 5.6topic/perl_5.6

Note this change is purely to make it easier to identify 5.6 compatibility
issues; no maintenance or testing agreement for 5.6 is meant to be implied,
although reasonable change requests will likely not be refused.

6 files changed, 23 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 9c1c90c..ab7d390 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 Revision history for URI
 
+  Karen Etheridge:
+    - minimum required perl version has been *experimentally* lowered to 5.6,
+      so as to allow any compatibility issues to be found.
+
 2015-07-25   Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>
 
   Release 1.69
diff --git a/Makefile.PL b/Makefile.PL
index a8729d4..ca46cc5 100644
--- a/Makefile.PL
+++ b/Makefile.PL
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 use strict;
 use warnings;
-require 5.008001;
-use utf8;
 use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
 
 my $developer = -f '.gitignore';
@@ -34,7 +32,7 @@ my %WriteMakefileArgs = (
         x_contributors => [ # manually added, from git shortlog -e -s -n
             'Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>',
             'Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>',
-            'Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>',
+            "Ville Skytt\xe4 <ville.skytta\@iki.fi>",
             'Mark Stosberg <mark@stosberg.com>',
             'Michael G. Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>',
             'Olaf Alders <olaf@wundersolutions.com>',
@@ -44,7 +42,7 @@ my %WriteMakefileArgs = (
             'Piotr Roszatycki <piotr.roszatycki@gmail.com>',
             'Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@launchpad.net>',
             'Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@bulknews.net>',
-            'Torsten Förtsch <torsten.foertsch@gmx.net>',
+            "Torsten F\xf6rtsch <torsten.foertsch\@gmx.net>",
             'Adam Herzog <adam@adamherzog.com>',
             'gerard <gerard@tty.nl>',
             'Alex Kapranoff <kapranoff@gmail.com>',
@@ -72,7 +70,7 @@ my %WriteMakefileArgs = (
                     'Exporter'      => '5.57',
                     'utf8'          => '0',
                     'Scalar::Util'  => '0',
-                    'perl'          => '5.008001',
+                    'perl'          => '5.006',  # only 5.8+ is guaranteed; patches requested for 5.6 fixes
                 },
                 recommends => {
                     'Business::ISBN' => '0',
diff --git a/t/idna.t b/t/idna.t
index da2ad98..81b33d1 100644
--- a/t/idna.t
+++ b/t/idna.t
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 
+BEGIN {
+    plan skip_all => 'these tests require perl 5.8' if $] < '5.008';
+}
+
 use utf8;
 use Test::More tests => 7;
 use URI::_idna;
diff --git a/t/iri.t b/t/iri.t
index f1dfd51..7217e76 100644
--- a/t/iri.t
+++ b/t/iri.t
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 
+BEGIN {
+    plan skip_all => 'these tests require perl 5.8' if $] < '5.008';
+}
+
 use utf8;
 use Test::More;
 use Config;
diff --git a/t/punycode.t b/t/punycode.t
index d1e3084..6ba97d3 100644
--- a/t/punycode.t
+++ b/t/punycode.t
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 
+BEGIN {
+    plan skip_all => 'these tests require perl 5.8' if $] < '5.008';
+}
+
 use utf8;
 use Test::More tests => 15;
 use URI::_punycode qw(encode_punycode decode_punycode);
diff --git a/t/utf8.t b/t/utf8.t
index 1453cfc..7dad5d6 100644
--- a/t/utf8.t
+++ b/t/utf8.t
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+BEGIN {
+    plan skip_all => 'these tests require perl 5.8' if $] < '5.008';
+}
+
 use strict;
 use warnings;