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Date:      Sun, 13 Sep 1998 19:33:39 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        patl@phoenix.volant.org
Cc:        Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Perl version in FreeBSD 
Message-ID:  <199809131733.TAA16884@gratis.grondar.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of " Sun, 13 Sep 1998 10:00:41 MST." <ML-3.3.905706041.4997.patl@asimov> 
References:  <ML-3.3.905706041.4997.patl@asimov> 

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>     1.	Perl5 is not 100% backwards compatible with perl4.  It is
> 	quite possible that some perl4 scripts will fail if executed
> 	by perl5.

True. Easy to fix. Done on FreeBSD-CURRENT.

> Now, 3.0 is a new major version.  It is -expected- to include various
> changes which may break backwards compatability; so it is the ideal
> point at which to make the upgrade.  The theory being that all of the
> major incompatabilities should be introduced at once, at a major version
> change.  (Hence CAM, ELF, SMP, bind 8, Perl5, etc.).

Quite :-)

M
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