From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 15 17:25:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6D6337B718 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 17:25:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA53492; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 20:25:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 20:25:31 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200103160125.UAA53492@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: joe@tao.org.uk Subject: Re: Perl 5.6 merged soon? In-Reply-To: <20010316004820.C4241@tao.org.uk> References: <20010315080445.A57062@clyde.goodleaf.net> <20010315095551E.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <20010315121201.E54243@rand.tgd.net> Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Cc: stable@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article you write: >For people who want to run perl 5.6.0 on -stable now they >should be able to get away with 'NOPERL=true' in /etc/make.conf >and installing 5.6.0 by hand. One of the big problems with uprevving the Perl in -stable is that the Perl people don't seem to show much concern for binary compatibility. As a result, when there's a new version of Perl put into the system, anyone who has a non-trivial set of Perl extensions installed must spend a good deal of time identifying them all and reinstalling every one (and potentially any local applications that depend on them). If I put my sysadmin hat on for a moment, I *really*, *really* don't want to do this on production systems, and I would probably freeze my -stable machines the instant before a new Perl hits the branch. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message