From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 20 14:47:54 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id OAA22485 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Jan 1995 14:47:54 -0800 Received: from wcarchive.cdrom.com (wcarchive.cdrom.com [192.216.191.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA22479 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 1995 14:47:50 -0800 Received: from sneezy.sri.com (sneezy.SRI.COM [128.18.40.6]) by wcarchive.cdrom.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA27029 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 1995 14:47:33 -0800 Received: from rocky.MT.net.mt.net (sri.MT.net) by sneezy.sri.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06492; Fri, 20 Jan 95 13:37:39 PST Received: by rocky.MT.net.mt.net (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13924; Fri, 20 Jan 95 14:39:09 MST Message-Id: <9501202139.AA13924@rocky.MT.net.mt.net> From: Nate Williams Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 14:39:08 -0700 In-Reply-To: "bo (b.) xiao" "Re: fw:how does one get perl for 2.0?" (Jan 20, 10:41am) Reply-To: Nate Williams X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: "bo (b.) xiao" Subject: Re: fw:how does one get perl for 2.0? Cc: freebsd-questions@wcarchive.cdrom.com Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > In message "how does one get perl for 2.0?", nate@sneezy.sri.com writes: > > The reason Perl5 isn't in the release is because it was 'beta' software > > when the release was being put together. Also, it has been my > > experience that it is a best to wait for a couple patches to be released > > before using a new product since there are always bugs that need to be > > shaken out in the initial distribution. > Drawback is some newer package requires newer perl. Majordomo for > one refuses to work with the bundled perl. It complains something > about time, as said in its readme or so. Freefall uses an older > majordomo(1.63) so perl4 is fine(my guess). Really? The version of majordomo must have been release fairly recently (~ 2 months), since I got it and was going to upgrade it on freefall then. If someone wants to make it into a port, I'm sure we would be willing to accept it. :-) Nate