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Date:      Mon, 03 Apr 2000 18:42:27 -0400
From:      "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>
To:        Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
Cc:        Nick Hibma <n_hibma@calcaphon.com>, Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>, "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>, FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Perl 5.6.0?
Message-ID:  <38E91E53.53547D8F@vangelderen.org>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.0004031050131.9381-100000@localhost> <38E8BFD5.3E69DF2A@vangelderen.org> <v0422081ab50e7e12c8f7@[195.238.1.121]>

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Brad Knowles wrote:
> 
> At 11:59 AM -0400 2000/4/3, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote:
> 
> >  PERL is not just used by the FreeBSD system, it's also used by many
> >  applications ran on top of FreeBSD. Those applications are more likely
> >  to require an up-to-date version of PERL. We for one need the (overly
> >  late) 64-bit support in PERL.
> 
>         MMMkay.  Try this: cd /usr/ports/lang/perl && make install

Which either gives me two different versions of PERL to worry about or
forces me to use an unsupported version for making the world. It's bad
enough that I have to work around the sendmail bug in the base system
;-)

>         This seems to me to be a much better solution, while we wait for
> Perl 5.6.x to stablize enough for it to actually be considered for
> inclusion in the FreeBSD base.  ;-)

I don't mind waiting for PERL to stabilize, after all I wouldn't be able
to use it myself if it were unstable. But that's a different argument...

Cheers,
Jeroen


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