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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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