From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 3 10: 1:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cheddar.netmonger.net (cheddar.netmonger.net [209.54.21.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EF8A37B6ED for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 10:01:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@cheddar.netmonger.net) Received: (from chris@localhost) by cheddar.netmonger.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA10274; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:00:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20000403130055.A8685@netmonger.net> Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:00:55 -0400 From: Christopher Masto To: Nick Hibma Cc: Chuck Robey , "Thomas T. Veldhouse" , FreeBSD-Current Subject: Re: Perl 5.6.0? Mail-Followup-To: Nick Hibma , Chuck Robey , "Thomas T. Veldhouse" , FreeBSD-Current References: <20000403024241.A13365@netmonger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Nick Hibma on Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 10:52:13AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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