Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 10:52:13 +0100 (BST) From: Nick Hibma <n_hibma@calcaphon.com> To: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>, "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>, FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Perl 5.6.0? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0004031050131.9381-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20000403024241.A13365@netmonger.net>
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Are there actually any good reasons why we _should_ upgrade in the first place? Security fixes, added functionality we require, etc. The perl we have is stable and the problems it has are well known, which is good enough in 99% of the cases. Including Perl in the make world build is something entirely different from doing a make install /usr/ports, I'm sure. Nick > > > 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 > -- n_hibma@webweaving.org n_hibma@freebsd.org USB project http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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