From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 20 21:22: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD04E37B401 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 21:22:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-146.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0060843E8A for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 21:22:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A06E66C61; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 21:22:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DA993129F; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 21:22:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 21:22:00 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: John Von Essen Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: perl version in -STABLE build Message-ID: <20021121052200.GA15968@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="T4sUOijqQbZv57TR" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:54:47PM -0500, John Von Essen wrote: > I am curious about something. >=20 > When you cvsup to -STABLE and do a make world, the version of perl that i= s=20 > built is 5.00503. The problem is that more and more perl mods require 5.6= =20 > or higher. Even some stuff in ports which depends on perl requires 5.6 or= =20 > higher. According to http://www.cpan.org/src/README.html the stable=20 > release of perl is 5.8.0. >=20 > 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 --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE93G13Wry0BWjoQKURAlqSAJ4gIz6DZXyt/D5TRg85tXycuPF3lgCfWhml S8hJyvraCgpa9uP2PTTaTK4= =bjYX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message