From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 23 01:51:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA09934 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 01:51:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA09912 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 01:50:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA18186; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 01:49:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (Dag-Erling Coidan Sm rgrav) cc: Garance A Drosihn , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Perl5 as default for current In-reply-to: Your message of "23 Jul 1998 10:24:38 +0200." Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 01:49:44 -0700 Message-ID: <18182.901183784@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > This has been discussed before, and as I recall, it was agreed that it > would not happen until someone volunteered to go through every single > Perl script in FreeBSD to make sure it will work with Perl 5. Perl > syntax and semantics have been known to change somewhat gratuitously > from one release to the next. That's already been done and is not the problem. The problem now is getting the bmake'd perl5 working. Someone submitted something for this and it was found to have a number of problems in how it was generated - the original, pristine sources weren't checked into /usr/src/contrib and modifications made via the framework, nor did all the man pages install correctly. Mark Murray is currently out travelling the world, but when he arrives back at home he's supposed to start working on cleaning up the submitted bmake job or doing it from scratch. Either way, a migration to perl5 in -current IS planned, it's just held up for lack of time and attention. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message