From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 15 10:08:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7C9B37B401 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 10:08:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail04.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net (mail04.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.118.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E83843FA3 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 10:08:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from timbo@dansat.data-plan.com) Received: (qmail 8424 messnum 187591 invoked from network[159.134.167.167/p935.as1.limerick1.eircom.net]); 15 May 2003 17:08:13 -0000 Received: from p935.as1.limerick1.eircom.net (HELO dansat.data-plan.com) (159.134.167.167) by mail04.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net (qp 8424) with SMTP; 15 May 2003 17:08:13 -0000 Received: from dansat.data-plan.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dansat.data-plan.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h4FH7m2f087190; Thu, 15 May 2003 18:07:50 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from timbo@dansat.data-plan.com) Received: (from timbo@localhost) by dansat.data-plan.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h4FH7jeC087189; Thu, 15 May 2003 18:07:45 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 18:07:42 +0100 From: Tim Bunce To: Charlie Root Message-ID: <20030515170742.GP53138@dansat.data-plan.com> References: <20030515155313.GA390@freebsdmall.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030515155313.GA390@freebsdmall.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i cc: stable@freebsd.org cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Subject: Re: Perl version in -STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 17:08:38 -0000 On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:53:13AM -0700, Charlie Root wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 03:10:09PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > I would therefore like to suggest that the version of Perl in the > > -STABLE tree be upgraded to 5.6.1, which is old enough to be known- > > good (and not deviate too much from 5.005_03) and yet new enough to > > incoroporate some of the more useful improvements to have appeared > > since 1999. If memory serves, it also takes significantly less time > > to build than 5.8.0. > > I would also like to see this happen. I think the 5.6.1 upgrade > should have already happened in -STABLE, but it's better late than > never. Also, it has been announced that a future release of the perl DBI extension will require at least perl 5.6.1. Tim.