From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Dec 8 21:55:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37CDC37B419; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 21:55:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.4/8.11.4) id fB95tDQ18827; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 00:55:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 00:55:13 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200112090555.fB95tDQ18827@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: jhb@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Perl 5.6.1 in the base.... In-Reply-To: References: <20011206162943.A74937@ninja1.internal> Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Apologies for getting into this discussion late... I just a few hours ago got back from LISA in San Diego.] >Nope. The perl in -current is 5.6.0. The problem is that the Perl upgrades >are quite hard to do and get right. And the Perl in -stable should stay as it is, unless you want to start erecting a giant banner that reads, ``FreeBSD Project screws -stable users yet again''. Remember, whenever the Perl version changes, every single Perl extension on the system has to be (at best) reinstalled. That's assuming, of course, that you can find them all. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message