From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 13 11:28:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA08529 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 11:28:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.volant.org (phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA08503; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 11:28:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patl@phoenix.volant.org) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org Received: from asimov.phoenix.volant.org ([205.179.79.65]) by phoenix.volant.org with smtp (Exim 1.92 #8) id 0zIGsp-0001sf-00; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 11:28:23 -0700 Received: from localhost by asimov.phoenix.volant.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA28434; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 11:28:17 -0700 Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 11:28:17 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Subject: Re: Perl version in FreeBSD To: Mark Murray cc: Dean Hollister , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD Questions In-Reply-To: <199809131803.UAA17014@gratis.grondar.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > A minor release, especially a dot-dot release, shouldn't break > > anything unless it is absolutely necessary to properly fix something > > more important. That's why the switch to perl5 (and bind 8, and...) > > was delayed until (well) after -current switched from 2.x to 3.0; > > and why it will not happen in -stable until that branch also moves > > to 3.x. > > Erm - before you lecture :-) > > It was me that did the Perl5 import. It happend then not quite for > the reasons you supply, but because that was when we got to it. It was > acknowleged about a year (?) ago that this needed to be done. Sorry, it wasn't intended as a lecture. And while I didn't take part in the previous discussions, I did follow them; and my previous message reflects my understanding of the salient arguments and final result. I'm quite willing to admit that my understanding is wrong. Had it been done a year ago, it probably would have made it into the 2.x releases. But I suspect that if the integration were much more recent than that, it would still have been restricted to -current because of the stabilization issues. (Again, I'm speaking as an outside observer. I could be wrong.) -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message