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Date:      Fri, 1 Mar 2002 20:51:12 +0000
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
To:        Frank Sonnemans <fs.mail@wanadoo.be>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Perl version in 4.5 Stable
Message-ID:  <20020301205112.GB40855@genius.tao.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <003901c1c162$167f6cd0$0101a8c0@scuba>
References:  <003901c1c162$167f6cd0$0101a8c0@scuba>

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On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 09:45:56PM +0100, Frank Sonnemans wrote:
> Which version of perl is used in the stable branch? Still version
> 5.005 or a 5.6x ?
>=20
> Assuming it is not 5.6x, will using the v 5.6 port of perl cause
> any significant incompatibilities (when installed as the default
> perl interpreter?)
>=20
> I have some applications requiring perl 5.6 or higher, but I do not
> want to mess with the stability of my server.

I guess that you can install 5.6 from the ports with no stability
problems, unless you've got lots of code running on the machine
that relies on things that have changed between releases.

Joe

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