Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 21:22:00 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: John Von Essen <john@essenz.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: perl version in -STABLE build Message-ID: <20021121052200.GA15968@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <FA65A8FF-FD04-11D6-B78A-0003933DDCFA@essenz.com> References: <FA65A8FF-FD04-11D6-B78A-0003933DDCFA@essenz.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:54:47PM -0500, John Von Essen wrote: > I am curious about something. > > When you cvsup to -STABLE and do a make world, the version of perl that is > built is 5.00503. The problem is that more and more perl mods require 5.6 > or higher. Even some stuff in ports which depends on perl requires 5.6 or > higher. According to http://www.cpan.org/src/README.html the stable > release of perl is 5.8.0. > > So whats going on? Shouldn't -STABLE build Perl 5.8 now? No, that would break backwards compatibility with existing installations. Install the port if you want it. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE93G13Wry0BWjoQKURAlqSAJ4gIz6DZXyt/D5TRg85tXycuPF3lgCfWhml S8hJyvraCgpa9uP2PTTaTK4= =bjYX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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