Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 19:33:39 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Cc: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Perl version in FreeBSD Message-ID: <199809131733.TAA16884@gratis.grondar.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of " Sun, 13 Sep 1998 10:00:41 MST." <ML-3.3.905706041.4997.patl@asimov> References: <ML-3.3.905706041.4997.patl@asimov>
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> 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
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