From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 13 15:07:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA03008 for current-outgoing; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 15:07:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from skiddaw.elsevier.co.uk (skiddaw.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.60]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA03000 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 15:07:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by skiddaw.elsevier.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id XAA06071 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 23:05:12 GMT Received: from tees by snowdon with SMTP (PP); Wed, 13 Mar 1996 23:01:21 +0000 Received: (from dpr@localhost) by tees (SMI-8.6/8.6.12) id XAA28625; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 23:05:25 GMT Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 23:05:25 GMT From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199603132305.XAA28625@tees> To: current@FreeBSD.org, mark@grondar.za Subject: Re: To pick a (perl) fight! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: JSfGWCjmHWpK8EQI0BMpXA== Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > What are the reasons we do not now have Perl5 in the main tree? I have > a query from one of our more perl-literate users who made the suggestion > that Perl4 should be in ports/. > > What say y'all? > The old perl4 perl5 argument again, get a lot of this at work. I'd say that until Larry writes a Perl 5 book so that there's some easily accessible documentation for it then most people will stick with perl 4 unless they have a particular need for perl5. Given that the momentum is very much against switching to perl 5 (for this and similar reasons) I think we'd stay more compatible with the rest of the world sticking with perl 4 for the moment. We'd also have to fix all the perl code we use if we switch to perl 5.