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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: ???? ??????? <ilia@chel.skbkontur.ru>
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Subject: Re: Perl5.6
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On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 08:04:50AM +0500, ???? ??????? wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
>=20
> 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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