Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 14:49:05 -0800 From: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> To: arch@FreeBSD.org Cc: tobez@FreeBSD.org Subject: Perl 5.6.1 in the base.... Message-ID: <20011206144905.B73442@ninja1.internal>
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Isn't it getting close to the time when we should start thinking about
integrating Perl 5.6.1 into the base system? Since 5.0 has been
pushed back a year, I'm getting antsy to see the upgrade happen sooner
rather than later. Developing on 5.005_03 and then copying scripts to
a 5.6 box used to work alright, but I recently have been bitten by the
_huge_ difference with mkdir.
In perl 5.005_03:
mkdir FILENAME,MODE
In perl 5.6.1:
mkdir FILENAME,MASK
mkdir FILENAME
Writting a wrapper around this is ugly and shouldn't be necessary.
Perl 5.6 came out two years ago. Granted it was an abomination of in
terms of backwards compatability, I think that most of the free world
has swallowed their gripes and has moved on. Can we?
I think we're hard pressed to convince anyone that we're helping out
by hanging onto 5.005_03 in the base. At this point, I think it'd be
reasonable to make the existing perl install a port and then make perl
5.6 apart of the base. Right now I can't install Xerxes-P because it
requires the Unicode support found in Perl 5.6. That's a pretty big
show stopper and the #1 reason why I still have some Solaris boxen
(read: non-FreeBSD) sitting around (can upgrade/thrash the local
install of Perl all I want and it doesn't hurt when it comes time to
upgrade).
Can someone take this issue up on either -core or even here? I
personally would be an advocate of having _both_ versions of perl
become packages/ports and then at sys-install time you're forced to
choose one of the two versions (need at least one version of perl
installed). 4.5 seems like a good time to get 5.6 out there, IMHO.
-sc
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Sean Chittenden
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