From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 21 13:57:40 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCD401065680 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:57:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from will.rutherdale@utoronto.ca) Received: from mail.vex.net (smaug.vex.net [208.76.104.132]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6A848FC18 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:57:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from will.rutherdale@utoronto.ca) Received: from [192.168.110.8] (unknown [207.35.13.239]) by mail.vex.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id E296617065 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:57:38 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <497729D1.20508@utoronto.ca> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:57:37 -0500 From: William Gordon Rutherdale User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.14ubu (X11/20080505) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20090121063401.23e8de5b@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <20090121063401.23e8de5b@scorpio> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Perl: Why not updated to latest version 5.10.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:57:42 -0000 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. > >