From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 13 11:04:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA00678 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 11:04:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gratis.grondar.za (gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA00657; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 11:04:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grondar.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA17014; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 20:03:38 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <199809131803.UAA17014@gratis.grondar.za> To: patl@phoenix.volant.org cc: Dean Hollister , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Perl version in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Your message of " Sun, 13 Sep 1998 10:47:41 MST." References: Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 20:03:26 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > A minor release, especially a dot-dot release, shouldn't break > anything unless it is absolutely necessary to properly fix something > more important. That's why the switch to perl5 (and bind 8, and...) > was delayed until (well) after -current switched from 2.x to 3.0; > and why it will not happen in -stable until that branch also moves > to 3.x. Erm - before you lecture :-) It was me that did the Perl5 import. It happend then not quite for the reasons you supply, but because that was when we got to it. It was acknowleged about a year (?) ago that this needed to be done. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message