Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 16:33:17 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> Cc: tobez@FreeBSD.org, arch@FreeBSD.org, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Subject: Re: Perl 5.6.1 in the base.... Message-ID: <XFMail.011206163317.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20011206162943.A74937@ninja1.internal>
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On 07-Dec-01 Sean Chittenden wrote: >> > 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. Nope. The perl in -current is 5.6.0. The problem is that the Perl upgrades are quite hard to do and get right. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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