From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 14 00:47:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA17702 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 00:47:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA17690 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 07:46:57 GMT (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA08970; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 00:47:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Terry Lambert cc: shigio@wafu.netgate.net (Shigio Yamaguchi), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: htags fails. In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 14 Apr 1998 01:59:56 -0000." <199804140159.SAA05892@usr06.primenet.com> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 00:47:09 -0700 Message-ID: <8967.892540029@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Because Perl 5 is not backward compatible in various areas, and people > have scripts that depend on the old syntax, which break under the new > (gratuitously changed for no good reason) syntax. Actually, all of those are pretty much fixed now and the REAL reason we haven't gone to Perl5 yet in the base tree is that nobody has done the work of converting it to bmake/contrib format. :) Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message