From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Dec 31 10:55:54 2000 From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 31 10:55:52 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from indigo.external.org (c1118643-b.chmpgn1.il.home.com [24.181.130.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D29537B400 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2000 10:55:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jeremy@localhost) by indigo.external.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBVIrqm69399 for ports@freebsd.org; Sun, 31 Dec 2000 12:53:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jeremy) Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 12:53:52 -0600 From: Jeremy Shaffner To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A proposal to mitigate the limitations of keeping an older perl in STABLE Message-ID: <20001231125351.P40238@external.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: jeremy@indigo.external.org Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Forgot to CC the list. ----- Forwarded message from Jeremy Shaffner ----- Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 12:06:27 -0600 From: Jeremy Shaffner To: Stan Brown Subject: Re: A proposal to mitigate the limitations of keeping an older perl in STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001231175435.521B437B400@hub.freebsd.org>; from stanb@awod.com on Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 12:54:00PM -0500 On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 12:54:00PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > Given that: > > A. There is no movement to upgarde the perl in the STABLE tree to 5.6 > B. That the 4.x tree will remain STABLE for a reasonable amount of time > C. The purpose of the ports system is to make using non core free software > easy. > D. Thre are a reasoanble number of useful perl modules that will not work with > the version of perl without modification. > E. The modifications to at least some of these are trivial (for a good perl > hacke, not you average user). > > I propose that an effor tshouldbe made to create ports for thesemodules that > will include the approriate fixes. I would like to create a Request Tracker port, but it requires a version of CGI.pm greater than 2.46, and 2.46 is what's currently in the base Perl. I'm for the idea. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeremy Shaffner | This space for rent. jeremy@external.org | $ grep happiness life http://www.external.org/~jeremy/pgp.key | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve ----- End forwarded message ----- -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeremy Shaffner | This space for rent. jeremy@external.org | $ grep happiness life http://www.external.org/~jeremy/pgp.key | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message