Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:57:37 -0500 From: William Gordon Rutherdale <will.rutherdale@utoronto.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl: Why not updated to latest version 5.10.0 Message-ID: <497729D1.20508@utoronto.ca> In-Reply-To: <20090121063401.23e8de5b@scorpio> References: <20090121063401.23e8de5b@scorpio>
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As a newcomer to freebsd and a long time Perl user, this was one of the first things I noticed. 5.8.8 as distributed on freebsd 7.1 is extremely old. -Will Jerry wrote: > I was wondering if anyone can tell me why Perl was not updated to the > latest stable release; i.e. 5.10.0 rather than 5.8.9 recently? It > appears that some ports are having problems with this odd version > update; i.e., "/news/inn" and possibly "/mail/mailscanner" as examples. > > With the latest version of Perl having been released over a year ago, > it doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense to waste the time to port > an older version. > >
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