[perl] Require at least Perl 5.8.0

As discussed and agreed in #1629, it's become hard to test with Perl
5.6 or earlier, such old versions are no longer in active use, and
4.1.0 is an appropriate time to make such a change.

I've dropped the compatibility code that was obvious to me, but there's
probably more that can be cleaned up now.
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@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ published on the SWIG web site at http://swig.org/release.html.
SWIG-4.1.0 summary:
- Add PHP 8 support.
- PHP wrapping is now done entirely via PHP's C API - no more .php wrapper.
- Perl 5.8.0 is now the oldest version SWIG supports.
- GitHub Actions is now used instead of Travis CI for continuous integration.
SWIG-4.0.2 summary: