Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:00:55 -0400 From: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> To: Nick Hibma <n_hibma@calcaphon.com> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>, "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>, FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Perl 5.6.0? Message-ID: <20000403130055.A8685@netmonger.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0004031050131.9381-100000@localhost>; from Nick Hibma on Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 10:52:13AM %2B0100 References: <20000403024241.A13365@netmonger.net> <Pine.BSF.4.20.0004031050131.9381-100000@localhost>
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On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 10:52:13AM +0100, Nick Hibma wrote: > Are there actually any good reasons why we _should_ upgrade in the first > place? Of course. We now have an obsolete version of Perl. That should be reason enough to upgrade. 5.6 is the first major release in over a year. It has significant new syntax that I intend to start using immediately, as will much of the rest of the Perl community. "Why haven't you upgraded yet?" is a rather traditional battle cry. I don't know whey they called it 5.6.0.. I'm dropping the .0, because it seems to inspire the usual "point-oh fear". This is not a "point-oh" release in the usual sense, and waiting for 5.6.1 would be a mistake. This message should not be construed as whining and prodding our Perl maintainer. Although I haven't looked at how it's done, I'm sure that integrating Perl with FreeBSD's build process is a difficult and tedious thing, and if I wanted it that badly, I would be offering patches. This is merely a rebuttal to the silly idea that FreeBSD should stick with an obsolete version of Perl indefinately. It needs to be updated in a timely manner, which probably means any time before the next FreeBSD release. (With allowances for going into current first, etc.). -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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