From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 3 8:59:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cypherpunks.ai (cypherpunks.ai [209.88.68.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F030237BDD9 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 08:59:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeroen@vangelderen.org) Received: from vangelderen.org (intefix.ai [209.88.68.216]) by cypherpunks.ai (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2214549; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 11:59:35 -0400 (AST) Message-ID: <38E8BFD5.3E69DF2A@vangelderen.org> Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 11:59:17 -0400 From: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Hibma Cc: Christopher Masto , Chuck Robey , "Thomas T. Veldhouse" , FreeBSD-Current Subject: Re: Perl 5.6.0? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nick Hibma wrote: > Are there actually any good reasons why we _should_ upgrade in the first > place? Security fixes, added functionality we require, etc. The perl we > have is stable and the problems it has are well known, which is good > enough in 99% of the cases. PERL is not just used by the FreeBSD system, it's also used by many applications ran on top of FreeBSD. Those applications are more likely to require an up-to-date version of PERL. We for one need the (overly late) 64-bit support in PERL. You could of course force users to install the latest PERL locally and fiddle with $PATH but this would amount to hacking around a deficiency in FreeBSD. If FreeBSD needs an older version of PERL for it's own use, it should provide something like 'perl_freebsd' or 'system_perl' so that 'perl' can always be up2date. Later Anton Berezin wrote: > Historical evidence suggests there will be 5.6.1 *very* soon, and 5.6.2 > shortly after that. Let's wait a couple of months before jumping on > this vagon... :-) 5.6.0 will almost surely prove to have far too many > problems to include it into FreeBSD source tree. Problems in a dot-zero release are a very good argument against importing PERL 5.6.0 now. Of course it would be even better to just import PERL4 again and force everybody to use Python, but that's another religious war ;-/ Cheers, Jeroen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message