From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 1 05:14:22 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id FAA08221 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 1 Jan 1995 05:14:22 -0800 Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA08213 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 1995 05:14:20 -0800 Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.8/jtpda-5.0) with SMTP id OAA19205 ; Sun, 1 Jan 1995 14:14:50 +0100 Received: by blaise.ibp.fr (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07194; Sun, 1 Jan 95 14:15:05 +0100 From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier ROBERT) Message-Id: <9501011315.AA07194@blaise.ibp.fr> Subject: Re: perl 5? To: root@io.cts.com (Morgan Davis) Date: Sun, 1 Jan 1995 14:15:04 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199501010405.UAA11484@io.cts.com> from "Morgan Davis" at Dec 31, 94 08:05:32 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23beta2] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1036 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Is there a reason why perl 5.0 is not included in FBSD? 5.0 was > release some months ago. If not, is there a schedule for having it > included into subsequent releases? It was decided at the time not to include perl 5 but perl 4 because perl 5 was still a beta and the vast majority of users know perl 4. > If it's a question of time and a someone to ensure the port, I may be > interested in doing it. I installed it for SCO a few months ago > without much pain. FBSD will likely be a piece of cake. Perl 5 is ./Configure; make in 2.1. 64 [14:10] roberto@keltia:FreeBSD/CTM> perl5.000 -v This is perl, version 5.000 Copyright 1987-1994, Larry Wall Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5.0 source kit. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: the daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD keltia 2.1.0-Development #2: Thu Dec 29 20:28:18 1994 roberto@keltia:/usr/src/sys/compile/KELTIA ctm#235