Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 14:44:11 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mike Jakubik" <mikej@rogers.com> To: "Ryan Newman" <ryannewman47@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl 5.8.5 Message-ID: <1871.66.11.183.178.1097088251.squirrel@66.11.183.178>
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Ryan Newman said: > I just installed the 5.3 beta-7 and noticed that perl 5.8.5 was > installed. Perl 5.8 breaks a lot of the complex applications that I need > to run why not stay with perl 5.6 which is more stable for applications ? Because this is the current version of perl. A lot of applications also dont work with older perl. Perl is a port, if you need an older version, you can remove 5.8 and install 5.6, problem solved.
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