From owner-freebsd-perl@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 24 13:45:26 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: perl@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2F6F1065672; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:45:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from dhcp-172-28-77-65.eur.corp.google.com (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70D208FC14; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:45:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <497B1B74.1060300@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:45:24 +0000 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Macintosh/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "B. Estrade" References: <497AE877.1050103@FreeBSD.org> <20090124131813.GF8987@bc3.lsu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20090124131813.GF8987@bc3.lsu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: perl@freebsd.org, portmgr Subject: Re: Status of perl 5.10 X-BeenThere: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: maintainer of a number of perl-related ports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:45:27 -0000 B. Estrade wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:07:51AM +0000, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> Can someone give us an update on what is the status of preparation for >> importing perl 5.10? Who is working on it; what are the remaining >> obstacles; what can we do in future to avoid the delays? >> >> Without pointing fingers at individuals, it has become quite a disgrace >> to us as a project that we still do not have this in the ports tree >> after more than a year, and we'd like to determine how we can fix this ASAP. > > It looks like 5.8 was recently updated to 5.8.9. As a big time Perl > user and list lurker, I can say that in general there seem to be very > few people clamoring for 5.10. I'm not saying that it shouldn't be > available, but since it is meant to be more of a path to Perl 6 rather > than a maintenance release of the current Perl standard version (i.e., > 5.8), I don't think it is quite the disgrace you make it out to be. It does come up fairly often on the mailing lists I read, and given that I know there were plans last year for working on the import, something clearly changed or went wrong with those plans. I agree that continuing to keep up with future development is also important. Thanks for your offer of help, hopefully the perl@freebsd.org community will be able to take advantage of it. Kris > > Parrot is also not /that/ out of date, though the latest current > release is 0.9.0 where as the one in Ports is 0.8.2. I regularly smoke > test Parrot on FreeBSD 7 using the head of their repo, and everything > usually works out of the box anyway. > > Something important to actually be following is the continued progress > of Perl6 (Raduko) and the current efforts that are underway to move it > from parrot/languages to its own repo trunk. > > With all of that said, and since I am pretty aware of the state of > Perl and its ilk at any given point in time, I'd be happy to assist > whomever looks over Perl and/or Parrot as long as some handholding and > patience is abundant in the beginning. > > Cheers, > Brett > >> Thanks, >> >> Kris, for portmgr >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-perl@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-perl >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-perl-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >