From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 3 22:43:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5781B37B9DF; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 22:43:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA84668; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 22:43:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 22:43:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" Cc: Brad Knowles , Nick Hibma , Christopher Masto , Chuck Robey , "Thomas T. Veldhouse" , FreeBSD-Current Subject: Re: Perl 5.6.0? In-Reply-To: <38E91E53.53547D8F@vangelderen.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote: > 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 > ;-) The issue with perl, that I'm not sure has been made clear during this thread, is that it's a bitch to mangle (or demangle, depending on POV) the build process into one that is compatible with the FreeBSD build infrastructure (namely, building with 'make'). Probably enough has changed with the new version as to invalidate a lot of the current build magic, meaning it would take a significant amount of work to integrate and test (and even then I'm sure it would have lots of annoying "corner cases" which break the build for various people and have to be worked around). If anyone is willing to take on this annoying task, go over to Mark Murray who is probably hiding in the corner over there and make yourself known :-) Kris ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message