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Date:      Sun, 21 Jul 2002 12:56:01 +0200
From:      Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Cc:        "Christopher H. Laco" <chris.laco@threetech.com>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Perl 5.6 vs. 5.8: What will happen in ports?
Message-ID:  <20020721105601.GK476@heechee.tobez.org>
In-Reply-To: <3D3A8F84.2080501@Leidinger.net>
References:  <3479.63.114.73.70.1027095408.squirrel@mail.chrislaco.com> <20020720184349.GD476@heechee.tobez.org> <3D3A8F84.2080501@Leidinger.net>

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On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 11:40:04AM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Anton Berezin wrote:
> 
> >>With the release of Perl 5.8, I'll assume it's only a matter of time
> >>before it ends up in ports.
> >>
> >>Will the perl5 port be upgraded 5.6 -> 5.8, or is it time to make a
> >>seperate port like perl5-current?
> >
> >
> >It will be a separate port.  I am not sure I like the name
> >`perl5-current', though.  I'd rather see it named perl58.
> 
> What about a repro-copy of perl5 to perl56 and go with perl 5.8 in 
> perl5? Seems to be more reasonable to me.

Maybe in the future;  right now 5.6 is significantly more mainstream
than 5.8, and I would expect it to stay that way for some time.

%Anton.
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