From owner-freebsd-perl@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 6 06:46:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44AB816A41F for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 06:46:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from leeym@utopia.leeym.com) Received: from msr33.hinet.net (msr33.hinet.net [168.95.4.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5670C43D46 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 06:46:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from leeym@utopia.leeym.com) Received: from utopia.leeym.com (utopia.leeym.com [211.21.137.52]) by msr33.hinet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA26370 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 14:46:38 +0800 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by utopia.leeym.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AC56B29D14 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 14:46:37 +0800 (CST) Received: from utopia.leeym.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (utopia.leeym.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 60599-05 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 14:46:33 +0800 (CST) Received: by utopia.leeym.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 36AF5B29D11; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 14:46:33 +0800 (CST) Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 14:46:33 +0800 From: Yen-Ming Lee To: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060106064633.GA67302@utopia.leeym.com> References: <20051221062909.GA93715@utopia.leeym.com> <43A91FC2.3010009@protey.ru> <20051221123849.GA39303@utopia.leeym.com> <20051221131100.GZ63964@droso.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051221131100.GZ63964@droso.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at leeym.com Subject: Re: Support for 5.005_03 [Was: about converters/p5-MIME-Base64 on perl 5.00503] X-BeenThere: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: maintainer of a number of perl-related ports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 06:46:40 -0000 --dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=big5 Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 02:11:00PM +0100, Erwin Lansing wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 08:38:49PM +0800, Yen-Ming Lee wrote: > > > > I tried your suggestion about devel/p5-XSLoader, and it works. > > Thanks for looking into this. I wasn't too happy to remove support for > 5.005_03 from this port, but couldn't find an easy way around it. > > > > However, I agree that we should review our supporting policy for old perl. > > > I personally don't care much about 5.005_03 anymore. There's just too > much that doesn't work with it anymore and it's easy for people to > install perl from ports, also on 4.x. I think people really should > consider moving to 5.8.7. Even 5.6.x is quite old now, 5.0x goes back to > the stone age. Keeping support for the rest of the 4.x lifetime will be > too big a PITA. > > If we can agree on this (or something else), it may be a good idea to > publish this somewhere so the rest of the world knows this. > > -erwin If we can (or wanna see if we can) stop supporting perl 5.005_03, what should we do next? -- Yen-Ming Lee [utf7:+Z05fZWYO] | KeyID:0x5EB52E51 | Taipei, Taiwan --dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iQCVAwUBQ74SScnMx0NetS5RAQLp2AP+Ir0bgFatNFjAO37xUuHVnKOiPRP1W6Sc FG2hhUbY5IHvjFGqp0vOAzHdMwWNgUG5vmEJ03TCcGG0ZwuvFVHr6p3C6Ie7f/EG D87zYY/TF1r300SpSKkWLUtzb8subPAVDRkzWGWF6dlzcwF7l55z2zFWDSCdp8gb d7zfMH/jVc8= =RVDh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx--