Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 14:44:53 +0200 From: Edwin Mons <e.mons@spcgroup.nl> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>, Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>, Nick Hibma <n_hibma@calcaphon.com>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>, "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>, FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Perl 5.6.0? Message-ID: <38EC86C5.6010206@spcgroup.nl> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004060918210.2063-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Doug Barton wrote: > > > Christopher Masto wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 10:52:13AM +0100, Nick Hibma wrote: > > > > Are there actually any good reasons why we _should_ upgrade in the first > > > > place? > > > > > > Of course. We now have an obsolete version of Perl. That should be > > > reason enough to upgrade. > > > > You haven't given a sufficiently compelling definition of "obsolete" > > yet. I think that what people are really asking is, "What does this new > > perl get us that we don't already have?" Once we've answered that, then > > we can balance the benefits against the costs (which are pretty high, > > considering the complexity of integrating perl into the berkeley make > > environment) and then we can try and apply those arguments in the search > > for someone who is willing and able to do the work. > > My experiences with perl tend to be that as soon as a new release comes > out, all the module maintainers tend to adopt it as standard and start to > deprecate the older versions. I'm not saying that this is an overnight > sort of thing, but it does pose a problem ... > > My stupid question, though, is why is this such a big issue? Would it be > too hard to extend our /usr/src build process so that it is smart enough > to do an install out of ports, and just build the ports version of 5.6.0, > vs trying to integrate it into our build tree? Create a symlink to > /usr/ports/devel/perl560 so that when it cd's to the perl directory and > does a 'make', it builds that? Whoah! That would mean that I'd have to install the ports tree on every machine I intend to build world on.. That's just not acceptable to me. The source tree should remain independant to external sources. Regards, Edwin Mons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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