From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 8 19:52:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8220D16A4CE for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 19:52:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from happygiraffe.net (happygiraffe.net [81.6.215.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3027943D2F for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 19:52:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dom@happygiraffe.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.happygiraffe.net [127.0.0.1]) by happygiraffe.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B23EB9DF; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 20:52:54 +0100 (BST) Received: from happygiraffe.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ppe.happygiraffe.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 24888-06-2; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 20:52:54 +0100 (BST) Received: by happygiraffe.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 055C2B9DD; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 20:52:54 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 20:52:53 +0100 To: Garance A Drosihn Message-ID: <20041008195253.GB22979@ppe.happygiraffe.net> References: <41663DEA.7020403@happygiraffe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41663DEA.7020403@happygiraffe.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i From: dom@happygiraffe.net (Dominic Mitchell) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at happygiraffe.net cc: Ryan Newman cc: rainer@ultra-secure.de cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl 5.8.5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 19:52:55 -0000 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