Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 20:52:53 +0100 From: dom@happygiraffe.net (Dominic Mitchell) To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl 5.8.5 Message-ID: <20041008195253.GB22979@ppe.happygiraffe.net> In-Reply-To: <41663DEA.7020403@happygiraffe.net> References: <BAY15-F8tKVCvvMSaQz00006f03@hotmail.com> <p06110412bd89f1d0d335@[128.113.24.47]> <41663DEA.7020403@happygiraffe.net>
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On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 08:12:42AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >Even though I have hit some of these problems, I do think it is a > >good idea to make the change to 5.8 as part of FreeBSD 5.3-release. > >People should be taking a bit more time to check, cross-check, and > >re-check everything they are running if they are upgrading to > >5.3-release from 4.x-release. > > 5.8.x has been stable Perl for over two years. You really /should/ be > using it if at all possible. If not, then deinstall it and install your > own Perl 5.004 package. You did want old Perl, didn't you? My apologies for this comment; it was flippant, unnecessary and misdirected. The point I was trying to make was that people who wish to stay with old versions of Perl shouldn't expect much support. Unfortunately, I've seen enough of that to be a bit jaded by it, hence the sharp comments. -Dom
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