Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 18:51:21 +0000 From: "Ryan Newman" <ryannewman47@hotmail.com> To: rainer@ultra-secure.de Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl 5.8.5 Message-ID: <BAY15-F8tKVCvvMSaQz00006f03@hotmail.com>
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>From: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> >To: "Ryan Newman" <ryannewman47@hotmail.com> >CC: current@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: perl 5.8.5 >Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 20:41:25 +0200 > >Ryan Newman wrote: > >>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 ? > >PERL 5.8 was "promoted" to standard quite some time ago. > >Also, the first thing I usually do after installing FreeBSD is cvsup and >install perl-5.8 ... > >RT needs 5.8, and I think spamassassin is also working better with 5.8. > >Is there actually anything that doesn't work with 5.8 but does work with >5.6? > The biggest problem is that 5.8 defaults to unicode support which ends up breaking a lot of complex applications. I know that linux has shifted from 5.6 to 5.8 and this has caused a lot of people problems on thel linux platform. _________________________________________________________________ On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement
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