Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:59:18 -0400 From: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> To: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: portupgrade to Perl 5.10.0 ?? Message-ID: <47C3C653-F0C1-45DB-868B-BE5AC5DA485F@khera.org> In-Reply-To: <B194B820-D02B-4EE8-9834-0DFE76683B82@ece.cmu.edu> References: <200807100340.38399.david@vizion2000.net> <20080710064246.346e2200@scorpio> <20080711080103.GA2128@holstein.holy.cow> <FFFF7EDF-C4F9-470E-8951-722E153F891E@khera.org> <B194B820-D02B-4EE8-9834-0DFE76683B82@ece.cmu.edu>
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On Jul 11, 2008, at 10:57 AM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > > On 2008 Jul 11, at 10:31, Vivek Khera wrote: > >> When I talk to some linux folks they just laugh that we don't have >> a perl 5.10 yet. It is embarrassing, actually, to go out and >> evangelize FreeBSD when there are delays like this. > > > As a practical matter, is 5.10 really all that urgent? (Bleeding- > edge Linuxers don't count; FreeBSD is a production OS.) There are some significant language improvements that would simplify some hairy parts of our code.
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