From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 11 14:59:19 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B84F1065672 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:59:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from yertle.kcilink.com (thingy.kcilink.com [74.92.149.59]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 196348FC0C for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:59:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from host-121.int.kcilink.com (host-121.int.kcilink.com [192.168.7.121]) by yertle.kcilink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C7848A234 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:59:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <47C3C653-F0C1-45DB-868B-BE5AC5DA485F@khera.org> From: Vivek Khera To: FreeBSD Ports In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v926) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:59:18 -0400 References: <200807100340.38399.david@vizion2000.net> <20080710064246.346e2200@scorpio> <20080711080103.GA2128@holstein.holy.cow> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.926) Subject: Re: portupgrade to Perl 5.10.0 ?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:59:19 -0000 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.