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Date:      Mon, 4 Nov 2002 19:58:42 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        ???? ??????? <ilia@chel.skbkontur.ru>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Perl5.6
Message-ID:  <20021105035842.GA6603@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021105080341.D30375-100000@sol.chel.skbkontur.ru>
References:  <20021105080341.D30375-100000@sol.chel.skbkontur.ru>

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On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 08:04:50AM +0500, ???? ??????? wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
> 
> Why Perl5.6 is only available from ports collection ? I guess perl5 is
> stable thing, why not to put it to base distribution ?

Because it breaks backwards compatibility with some existing scripts.

Kris

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