Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 11:28:17 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> 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: <ML-3.3.905711297.2310.patl@asimov> In-Reply-To: <199809131803.UAA17014@gratis.grondar.za>
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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. Sorry, it wasn't intended as a lecture. And while I didn't take part in the previous discussions, I did follow them; and my previous message reflects my understanding of the salient arguments and final result. I'm quite willing to admit that my understanding is wrong. Had it been done a year ago, it probably would have made it into the 2.x releases. But I suspect that if the integration were much more recent than that, it would still have been restricted to -current because of the stabilization issues. (Again, I'm speaking as an outside observer. I could be wrong.) -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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