From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 24 17:30:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.zuhause.org (www.zuhause.org [205.215.217.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7276A37B43C for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 17:30:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.zuhause.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1B5017C74; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 19:30:07 -0500 (CDT) From: Bruce Albrecht MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14798.40078.893696.908194@celery.zuhause.org> Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 19:30:06 -0500 (CDT) To: Vivek Khera Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl 5.6 in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <14796.48644.440687.452340@yertle.kciLink.com> References: <20000922151244.A54381@setzer.chocobo.cx> <14796.48644.440687.452340@yertle.kciLink.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Vivek Khera writes: > >>>>> "CM" == Chip Marshall writes: > > CM> Is the version of perl in the FreeBSD source tree going to be upgraded > CM> to Perl 5.6.0 anytime soon? just curious. > > > I certainly hope not in 4-STABLE. Perl 5.6 still has problems with > some things, and requires some patches; why those aren't put together > into a 5.6.1 release, I don't know. But stick with Perl 5.005 in > 4-STABLE. I haven't read the perl5-porters list in the last couple of weeks, but their core is planning on putting out a 5.7.0 release (development/beta release) shortly, if they haven't already done so, and then release 5.6.1 with code MFC'd from 5.7.0 soon after. I'm not the person responsible for keeping perl working in the FreeBSD world build, but if I were, I'd wait for 5.6.1. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message