From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 13 10:34:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA24886 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 10:34:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gratis.grondar.za (gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA24868; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 10:34:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grondar.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA16884; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 19:33:39 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <199809131733.TAA16884@gratis.grondar.za> To: patl@phoenix.volant.org cc: Dean Hollister , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Perl version in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Your message of " Sun, 13 Sep 1998 10:00:41 MST." References: Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 19:33:39 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 1. Perl5 is not 100% backwards compatible with perl4. It is > quite possible that some perl4 scripts will fail if executed > by perl5. True. Easy to fix. Done on FreeBSD-CURRENT. > Now, 3.0 is a new major version. It is -expected- to include various > changes which may break backwards compatability; so it is the ideal > point at which to make the upgrade. The theory being that all of the > major incompatabilities should be introduced at once, at a major version > change. (Hence CAM, ELF, SMP, bind 8, Perl5, etc.). Quite :-) M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message