From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Dec 6 16:31:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.tgd.net (pop3-ssl.tgd.net [209.81.25.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F1C437B405; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 16:31:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.tgd.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 178E020F16; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 16:29:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 16:29:43 -0800 From: Sean Chittenden To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, tobez@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Perl 5.6.1 in the base.... Message-ID: <20011206162943.A74937@ninja1.internal> References: <20011206144905.B73442@ninja1.internal> <20011206180951.F92148@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011206180951.F92148@elvis.mu.org>; from "bright@mu.org" on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at = 06:09:51PM X-PGP-Key: 0x1EDDFAAD X-PGP-Fingerprint: C665 A17F 9A56 286C 5CFB 1DEA 9F4F 5CEF 1EDD FAAD X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message