From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 14 01:47:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA02475 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 01:47:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from internationalschool.co.uk ([194.72.37.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA02464 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 01:47:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuart@internationalschool.co.uk) Received: (qmail 16470 invoked from network); 14 Sep 1998 08:46:20 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO internationalschool.co.uk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Sep 1998 08:46:20 -0000 Message-ID: <35FCD7DA.22DEAED5@internationalschool.co.uk> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 09:46:19 +0100 From: Stuart Henderson Organization: http://www.internationalschool.co.uk/ X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b1 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: patl@phoenix.volant.org CC: Dean Hollister , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Perl version in FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG patl@phoenix.volant.org wrote: > > Why is perl v4 in the standard FreeBSD release, current and stable > > releases? Why can't it be 5.00404 by default? Many packages require perl 5 > > to work, so why not make 5.00404 the default... > > I see that non of the other replies have addressed the original question. > You can readily dig through the mailing list archives find the gory > details of the previous discussions of this issue; but the condensed > version is: istr the main reason was that nobody had ported it to use BSD make at the time (OpenBSD had it in their tree then but used gmake to build it). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message