From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Dec 10 13:39:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail12.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B47DD37B405 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 13:38:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 8945 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2001 21:38:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 10 Dec 2001 21:38:38 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200112090555.fB95tDQ18827@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 13:38:35 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Garrett Wollman Subject: Re: Perl 5.6.1 in the base.... Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 09-Dec-01 Garrett Wollman wrote: > [Apologies for getting into this discussion late... I just a few hours > ago got back from LISA in San Diego.] > >>Nope. The perl in -current is 5.6.0. The problem is that the Perl upgrades >>are quite hard to do and get right. > > And the Perl in -stable should stay as it is, unless you want to start > erecting a giant banner that reads, ``FreeBSD Project screws -stable > users yet again''. > > Remember, whenever the Perl version changes, every single Perl > extension on the system has to be (at best) reinstalled. That's > assuming, of course, that you can find them all. I don't mind that. Perhaps fixing the perl port so that perl 5.6.1 can be installed on 4.x systems as a port would be the best approach to take. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message