From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 15 09:30:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA08446 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 09:30:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gratis.grondar.za (gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA08428 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 09:30:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grondar.za (IDENT:PyU9kYRFslIr3Ef0deJ9nAhEhv39A2b9@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA01021; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 18:28:57 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <199809151628.SAA01021@gratis.grondar.za> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , shimon@simon-shapiro.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Alok K.Dhir" Subject: Re: ELF Xfree86? In-Reply-To: Your message of " Tue, 15 Sep 1998 10:56:23 -0400." References: Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 18:28:55 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Matthew N. Dodd" wrote: > > To turn the question around, why would you personally want perl5 as a > > port when it was already part of -current? > > Because Perl 5.005_51 is already out? (Granted its a development > release). Naah. Perl 5.00N_MM with MM > 50 is not for public consumption. MM<=49 are the development releases. The others are bleeding edge. > One hopes that the new version of Perl5 in the tree will be updated to > track official perl releases better than the old version. I intend to. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message