From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 4 01:24:43 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA02898 for current-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jun 1995 01:24:43 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA02866 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 1995 01:24:31 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA21620; Sun, 4 Jun 1995 10:24:28 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA28882 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 4 Jun 1995 10:24:26 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA26622 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 4 Jun 1995 09:50:21 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506040750.JAA26622@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: sup is fetching whole src tree To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 09:50:21 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-current users) In-Reply-To: <199506040346.UAA18045@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Jun 3, 95 08:46:03 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 871 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > While you're at it, how about making our custom version perl 5 clean? > > I am *NOT* a perl hacker, I can just scrap by fixing broken things. That > and can it be made to be both perl 4.136 and 5.0 clean? Remeber, FreeFall > runs releases, not the cutting edge, and the release is and will be for > some time at perl 4.136. Should be possible. Perl 5 has some syntax extensions, e.g. an unquoted @ within a "" string is now expanded; fixed scripts (that do not use the extensions, but take care of them) should be backwards compatible to Perl 4 however. I've been told that the perl 5 compiler gives a detailed error message. I don't have perl 5 by now, so please don't ask me... (yet). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)