From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 9 13:34:28 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF1AD10656C0 for ; Sat, 9 May 2009 13:34:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@larseighner.com) Received: from mail.team1internet.com (mail.team1internet.com [216.110.13.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6B988FC31 for ; Sat, 9 May 2009 13:34:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@larseighner.com) Received: by mail.team1internet.com (Postfix, from userid 12346) id CB2DA16B60C; Sat, 9 May 2009 08:34:22 -0500 (CDT) Received: from larseighner.com (unknown [216.110.13.84]) by mail.team1internet.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 4523916B60B; Sat, 9 May 2009 08:34:21 -0500 (CDT) Received: by larseighner.com (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 lars@larseighner.com; Sat, 9 May 2009 08:31:46 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 08:31:45 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner X-X-Sender: lars@debranded.6dollardialup.com To: Jos Chrispijn In-Reply-To: <4A058193.6040703@webrz.net> Message-ID: <20090509082129.R56383@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> References: <4A05637C.1040005@webrz.net> <20090509064241.W51488@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> <4A058193.6040703@webrz.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Sanitizer: Anomy and SpamAssassin mail filter - see http://www.6dollardialup.com/support/spaminfo.html Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Perl upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 13:34:32 -0000 On Sat, 9 May 2009, Jos Chrispijn wrote: > Lars Eighner wrote: >> On Sat, 9 May 2009, Jos Chrispijn wrote: >> >> You must be new around here. > Yes, I am L-) >> The process described in UPDATING for upgrading to Perl 5.10 is relatively >> painless compared to previous perl upgrades. So much stuff depends upon >> perl that: > [snip] > > Do you recommend having Perl updated or should I stay with 5.8? Unless you know there is something in 5.10 that you need now, I recommend waiting at least a little bit. Let the gotta-have-the-newest-shiny folks take the sharp edges off. Study the dependencies list from pkg_info and dependencies of any big thing you plan to install. If you are going to (re-)build something big or a lot of little things anyway, it may make sense to upgrade perl just before you do that so that rebuilding the ports that depend on perl will kill two birds with one stone. If such an opportunity doesn't arise, maybe do it anyway about the time of the first frost --- snuggle up in front of the blazing compiler and sip hot chocolate. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266