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Date:      Mon, 26 May 1997 08:22:16 -0400 (EDT)
From:      James FitzGibbon <james@nexis.net>
To:        Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/archivers/p5-Compress-Zlib Makefile ports/converters/p5-Convert-UU         Makefile ports/databases/p5-DBD-mSQL Makefile         ports/databases/p5-DBI Makefile ports/databases/p5-Msql Makefile         ports/databases/p5-Pg Makefile ports/devel Makefile ...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970526082101.24441A-100000@nexis.net>
In-Reply-To: <199705260941.CAA21972@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>

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On Mon, 26 May 1997, Satoshi Asami wrote:

>  *   Upgrade all ports requiring perl5.003 to perl5.004
> 
> Cool.  By the way, I'm thinking about introduce a new variable
> "USE_PERL5" when perl5 is imported to the main distribution.  It will
> work like USE_GMAKE in the 2.2 branch and be a no-op in the 3.0
> branch.

Sounds like good idea.  It would have certainly helped this upgrade,
although I doubt we'll see 5.005 before another year is out (unless 5.004
is botched...)

You say it will be a no-op in 3.0; does this mean that 5.004 is going into
the base tree ?

--
j.





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