From owner-freebsd-perl@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 21 14:52:22 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: perl@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A0B71065674 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:52:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ehaupt@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mx.critical.ch (cl-8.zrh-02.ch.sixxs.net [IPv6:2001:1620:f00:7::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D06298FC16 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:52:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wiggles.bwns.ch (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by mx.critical.ch (8.14.3/8.14.3/critical-1.0) with SMTP id o9LEqKa9020133 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:52:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ehaupt@FreeBSD.org) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:52:20 +0200 From: Emanuel Haupt To: perl@FreeBSD.org Message-Id: <20101021165220.d72ae16c.ehaupt@FreeBSD.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.3 (GTK+ 2.20.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: start building thread support for lang/perl5.12 by default X-BeenThere: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: maintainer of a number of perl-related ports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:52:22 -0000 May I suggest to start enabling thread support for lang/perl5.12 by default. While thread support was considered unstable for a long time it has become more stable with perl 5.12. While some of us might consider perl threads still unstable it shouldn't cause any harm if threads arent imported. Finally, many Linux distributions have started to ship perl with thread support by default (eg. RHEL5). Emanuel