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Date:      Tue, 24 Jun 1997 00:20:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:      asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
To:        scott@statsci.com
Cc:        roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, james@nexis.net, freebsd-ports@hub.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports/3936: perl 5.004_01 is already available
Message-ID:  <199706240720.AAA04973@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <m0wgJb6-0006uQC@apple.statsci.com> (message from Scott Blachowicz on Mon, 23 Jun 1997 17:36:40 -0700)

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 * 	BUILD_DEPENDS+=		perl5:${PORTSDIR}/lang/perl5
 * 	RUN_DEPENDS+=		perl5:${PORTSDIR}/lang/perl5
 * 
 * and make sure that the lang/perl5 port installs a 'perl5' link.  Then you 
 * won't even have to change bsd.port.mk for the next perl5 update that you want 
 * to use in the p5-* ports.

Because they are different. ;)  For instance, 5.004 has new modules
that were not in 5.003.

The difference in version numbers here is not an annoyance, it's
actually a useful information for us.

Satoshi



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