From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 2 23:18:48 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id XAA11074 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Jan 1995 23:18:48 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA11068 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 1995 23:18:47 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA02071; Mon, 2 Jan 1995 23:18:11 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: time.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Morgan Davis cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl 5? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 31 Dec 94 20:05:32 PST." <199501010405.UAA11484@io.cts.com> Date: Mon, 02 Jan 1995 23:18:11 -0800 Message-ID: <2070.789117491@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Is there a reason why perl 5.0 is not included in FBSD? 5.0 was > release some months ago. If not, is there a schedule for having it > included into subsequent releases? 5.0 certainly won't be in FreeBSD by default for some time. No schedule yet, but we certainly won't even consider putting it in until conventional wisdom whispers it's ready. > If it's a question of time and a someone to ensure the port, I may be > interested in doing it. I installed it for SCO a few months ago > without much pain. FBSD will likely be a piece of cake. A port is indeed how I envisioned it being done in the interim. /usr/ports/lang/perl5 perhaps? Go for it! Jordan