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To: Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org>
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Subject: Re: Perl 5.6 vs. 5.8: What will happen in ports?
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Anton Berezin wrote:

>>With the release of Perl 5.8, I'll assume it's only a matter of time
>>before it ends up in ports.
>>
>>Will the perl5 port be upgraded 5.6 -> 5.8, or is it time to make a
>>seperate port like perl5-current?
> 
> 
> It will be a separate port.  I am not sure I like the name
> `perl5-current', though.  I'd rather see it named perl58.


What about a repro-copy of perl5 to perl56 and go with perl 5.8 in 
perl5? Seems to be more reasonable to me.

Bye,
Alexander.


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