From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 15 20:29:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA17333 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 20:29:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ptway.com (apollo.ptway.com [199.176.148.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA17328 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 20:29:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brianjr.haskin.org (207R1.ptway.com [199.176.148.74]) by ptway.com (8.7.1/3.4W4-PTWAY-sco-ODT3.0) with ESMTP id XAA22149 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 23:21:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <341DFCBF.D4D18745@ptway.com> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 23:27:59 -0400 From: Brian Haskin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sperl.. X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <19970916013224.LK21199@uriah.heep.sax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch wrote: > > As Existence is Futile wrote: > > > I guess I just assumed that it said the same version, that it would > have > > the same exploit. Would have thought it'd been pushed up to 4.037 by > the > > camel guys, but I guess I've fouled up this time :) or at least > named > > 4.036b or something odd. > > Perl 4 is officially abandoned by the Perl Gods. They didn't submit > any patch for it, nor did the CERT Advisory. We've fixed the bug only > in the FreeBSD tree. > Question from a newbie, why haven't we gone over to perl 5 yet in the base distribution? Brian Haskin