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From: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>
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To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
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Subject: Re: Perl 5.6.0?
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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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