From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 22 16:50:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA22568 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 16:50:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailhub.ainet.com (mailhub.ainet.com [204.30.40.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA22459 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 16:50:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmscott@ainet.com) Received: from ainet.com (root@ainet.com [204.30.40.6]) by mailhub.ainet.com (8.9.1/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA09231; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 16:49:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmscott@ainet.com) Received: from perl.ainet.com by ainet.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA29883; Wed, 22 Jul 98 16:50:45 PDT Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980722165030.00853ae0@mail.ainet.com> X-Sender: jmscott@mail.ainet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 16:50:30 -0700 To: Garance A Drosihn , current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Joseph M. Scott" Subject: Re: Perl5 as default for current In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If I recall correctly this was brought up before ( at least one that I caught anyway ). I believe the bottom line was that perl5 needed to build ok with bmake. I also thought that someone had stepped up and made the needed changes. That was the last that I had heard. If I'm totally off base let me know, also there may be more to the story than just my short version. Joseph Scott jmscott@ainet.com At 07:40 PM 7/22/98 -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >I was just curious: > >Are there plans to make the "standard" perl in FreeBSD be perl5? >(yes, I know perl5 is in /usr/local/bin, and that it's very easy >to get to there. I am just wondering if that will ever replace >the perl which is currently perl4). > >I do not pretend that this is critical to the future of mankind, >I'm just curious what the plans are... > >--- >Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu >Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu >Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message