Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 13:19:40 +1000 From: John Saunders <john.saunders@scitec.com.au> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Queries Message-ID: <3534274C.282F0F5B@scitec.com.au> References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980414190951.348A-100000@pm3h-11.pacificnet.net>
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The first FreeBSD that I installed was 2.2.5 and it installed an older
version of perl. However in the packages I was able to install perl
5.004_01. The FreeBSD "standard" perl lives in /usr/bin and the
installed package goes into /usr/local/bin/perl.
I'm not sure why they keep the old version 4 around, probably since
it's known to be stable. It's also in the CVS tree so I suppose it
gets officialy supported and fixed.
Cheers.
Joey Garcia wrote:
>
> People have been talking about what they would like from FreeBSD and stuff
> like that. I have been wondering...I remember way back when I installed
> (or tried to install) FreeBSD 2.2.2, it installed old versions of Perl and
> other stuff, when there was a brand new (stable, I think) version of Perl.
> I think it installed Perl 4.0 when there was a Perl 5.003 at the time.
>
> Does the installation process of newer version of FreeBSD do the same, or
> have they fixed it so that new software versions get installed? I know
> that Linux was always up to date on things like that, but then again Linux
> usually gets ported to pretty quick.
>
> Anyways....in case that FreeBSD is still slow on getting new software
> versions installed during installation...maybe it's time that FreeBSD
> speeds up things like this. But that's only in case they haven't done so
> already.
>
> Just my opinion and stuff, if it matters. :)
>
> Joey Bear Garcia
>
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