From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Jul 20 18:57:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10FD337B400 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 18:57:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.chrislaco.com (mail.chrislaco.com [63.114.73.105]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4768743E58 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 18:57:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris.laco@threetech.com) Received: from 63.114.73.70 (SquirrelMail authenticated user claco) by mail.chrislaco.com with HTTP; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 21:57:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <1028.63.114.73.70.1027216658.squirrel@mail.chrislaco.com> Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 21:57:38 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Perl 5.6 vs. 5.8: What will happen in ports? From: "Christopher H. Laco" To: In-Reply-To: <20020720184349.GD476@heechee.tobez.org> References: <3479.63.114.73.70.1027095408.squirrel@mail.chrislaco.com> <20020720184349.GD476@heechee.tobez.org> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Cc: Reply-To: chris.laco@threetech.com X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.7) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In the last exciting episode of Das Internet, Anton Berezin sent forth the following words of wisdom: > On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 12:16:48PM -0400, Christopher H. Laco wrote: >> With the release of Perl 5.8, I'll assume it's only a matter of time >> before it ends up in ports. >> >> Will the perl5 port be upgraded 5.6 -> 5.8, or is it time to make a >> seperate port like perl5-current? > > It will be a separate port. I am not sure I like the name > `perl5-current', though. I'd rather see it named perl58. > >> Personally, my vote is for a seperate port so people can choose >> between the two..but that's just me. > > Very reasonable. > > =Anton. > -- > | Anton Berezin | FreeBSD: The power to serve | | > catpipe Systems ApS _ _ |_ | http://www.FreeBSD.org | | > tobez@catpipe.net (_(_|| | tobez@FreeBSD.org | | +45 > 7021 0050 | Private: tobez@tobez.org | Cool beans! Thanks for the info. -=Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message