From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 4 21:15:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42FD937B401 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 21:15:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from sol.chel.skbkontur.ru (sol.chel.skbkontur.ru [212.57.175.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4089143E42 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 21:15:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ilia@chel.skbkontur.ru) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sol.chel.skbkontur.ru (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gA55F4Kx043762 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Tue, 5 Nov 2002 10:15:06 +0500 (YEKT) (envelope-from ilia@chel.skbkontur.ru) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 10:15:04 +0500 (YEKT) From: =?koi8-r?B?6czY0SD7ydDJw8nO?= To: Kris Kennaway Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Perl5.6 In-Reply-To: <20021105035842.GA6603@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: <20021105101344.N43707-100000@sol.chel.skbkontur.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 08:04:50AM +0500, ???? ??????? wrote: > > Dear Sirs, > > > > Why Perl5.6 is only available from ports collection ? I guess perl5 is > > stable thing, why not to put it to base distribution ? > > Because it breaks backwards compatibility with some existing scripts. what should I expect after installing perl5.6 (perl5.8 ?) ? and where can I read about it ? I decided to try Bricolage, and it requires perl5.6 > > Kris > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message