Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 20:03:26 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Cc: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Perl version in FreeBSD Message-ID: <199809131803.UAA17014@gratis.grondar.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of " Sun, 13 Sep 1998 10:47:41 MST." <ML-3.3.905708861.7793.patl@asimov> References: <ML-3.3.905708861.7793.patl@asimov>
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> 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
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