From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Dec 6 16:10: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [216.33.66.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2890D37B405; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 16:09:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id A80AE81E0A; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 18:09:51 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 18:09:51 -0600 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Sean Chittenden Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, tobez@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Perl 5.6.1 in the base.... Message-ID: <20011206180951.F92148@elvis.mu.org> References: <20011206144905.B73442@ninja1.internal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011206144905.B73442@ninja1.internal>; from sean@chittenden.org on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 02:49:05PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Sean Chittenden [011206 16:51] wrote: > > 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. At this point it's more an issue of man power than if we want to do it or not. It sure seems like a good idea, do you think you can contribute the patches needed? Can anyone else get working on this? -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message