Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 02:42:41 -0400 From: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>, "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Perl 5.6.0? Message-ID: <20000403024241.A13365@netmonger.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004021752480.418-100000@picnic.mat.net>; from Chuck Robey on Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 05:56:22PM -0400 References: <007501bf9cec$e0b77e80$0100a8c0@veldy.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004021752480.418-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 05:56:22PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > > Are there any plans to merge perl-5.6.0 into current? I don't have any > > plans for using it currently, but I curious. > > Hmm. What with the nightmarish build structure of perl, I'm sure that > reading this is just going to wreck Mark's day. In light of that, and in > the absence of both any real software that needs the upgrade, and > lack of confidence in a really squeaky new release, why don't we all grant > Mark a little slack on this, at least for a while. I've been running Perl 5 since before it was included with FreeBSD, and I've never noticed anything nightmarish about the build process. I tried 5.6 a couple of days ago, and it built and tested out of the box. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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