From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Dec 6 16:33:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0ABE37B41A for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 16:33:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 9630 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2001 00:33:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 7 Dec 2001 00:33:22 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011206162943.A74937@ninja1.internal> Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 16:33:17 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Sean Chittenden Subject: Re: Perl 5.6.1 in the base.... Cc: tobez@FreeBSD.org, arch@FreeBSD.org, Alfred Perlstein 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 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 <>< 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