Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 12:53:52 -0600 From: Jeremy Shaffner <jeremy@external.org> 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>
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Forgot to CC the list. ----- Forwarded message from Jeremy Shaffner <jeremy@external.org> ----- Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 12:06:27 -0600 From: Jeremy Shaffner <jeremy@external.org> To: Stan Brown <stanb@awod.com> 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
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