From owner-freebsd-perl@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 21 13:11:04 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD68416A41F for ; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:11:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from erwin@mail.droso.net) Received: from mail.droso.net (koala.droso.net [193.88.12.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21D2443D49 for ; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:11:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from erwin@mail.droso.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.droso.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38A4522AD9; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:11:02 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail.droso.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5FCA922A03; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:11:00 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:11:00 +0100 From: Erwin Lansing To: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20051221131100.GZ63964@droso.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org References: <20051221062909.GA93715@utopia.leeym.com> <43A91FC2.3010009@protey.ru> <20051221123849.GA39303@utopia.leeym.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="lZZ4ablUVnt2XgAh" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051221123849.GA39303@utopia.leeym.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/i386 5.4-RELEASE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd 0.1 Subject: Support for 5.005_03 [Was: about converters/p5-MIME-Base64 on perl 5.00503] X-BeenThere: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: maintainer of a number of perl-related ports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:11:04 -0000 --lZZ4ablUVnt2XgAh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 08:38:49PM +0800, Yen-Ming Lee wrote: >=20 > I tried your suggestion about devel/p5-XSLoader, and it works. Thanks for looking into this. I wasn't too happy to remove support for 5.005_03 from this port, but couldn't find an easy way around it. >=20 > However, I agree that we should review our supporting policy for old perl. >=20 I personally don't care much about 5.005_03 anymore. There's just too much that doesn't work with it anymore and it's easy for people to install perl from ports, also on 4.x. I think people really should consider moving to 5.8.7. Even 5.6.x is quite old now, 5.0x goes back to the stone age. Keeping support for the rest of the 4.x lifetime will be too big a PITA. If we can agree on this (or something else), it may be a good idea to publish this somewhere so the rest of the world knows this. -erwin --=20 Erwin Lansing http://droso.org Security is like an onion. (o_ _o) It's made up of several layers \\\_\ /_/// erwin@FreeBSD.org And it makes you cry. <____) (____> erwin@aauug.dk --lZZ4ablUVnt2XgAh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDqVRkqy9aWxUlaZARAi1mAJ9A4fs0MHLZc6/EoUga33byuoGnhACfektM W2LPXTZjF55Q5e09VIbp2KQ= =JtG4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lZZ4ablUVnt2XgAh--