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Date:      Thu, 6 Dec 2001 16:29:43 -0800
From:      Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.org, tobez@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Perl 5.6.1 in the base....
Message-ID:  <20011206162943.A74937@ninja1.internal>
In-Reply-To: <20011206180951.F92148@elvis.mu.org>; from "bright@mu.org" on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at = 06:09:51PM
References:  <20011206144905.B73442@ninja1.internal> <20011206180951.F92148@elvis.mu.org>

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> > 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?

I know I'm going to be busy for ~2 weeks and will have only limited
amounts of time to work on this, but after that I should be wide open
in terms of after hrs time.  If I start chiseling away at this w/ a
few other folks, however, is there the support/desire to integrate the
changes?  The reason I lobbed this out (and promptly ran for the door)
was that I am under the impression that there is some precedent _not_
to use/like Perl 5.6.

> Can anyone else get working on this?

Better question: is someone already working on this?  I seem to recall
someone already had a large chunk of this done.  -sc

-- 
Sean Chittenden

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