From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 23 17:46:23 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7FC0106564A for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:46:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aimass@yabarana.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C0D68FC1C for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:46:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwc33 with SMTP id 33so2365091wwc.31 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:46:22 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.20.18 with SMTP id o18mr1809375weo.31.1285263981292; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:46:21 -0700 (PDT) Sender: aimass@yabarana.com Received: by 10.216.170.7 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:46:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C9B8360.6090100@onetel.com> References: <4C9B8360.6090100@onetel.com> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:46:21 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: XpIPhMJpBOdQRLd1tTvLD1Fj5l8 Message-ID: From: Alejandro Imass To: Chris Whitehouse Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: User Questions Subject: Re: which perl? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:46:23 -0000 On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Chris Whitehouse wro= te: > Hi, > > Todays ports tree has lang/perl5.10 and lang/perl5.12. A new 8.1-RELEASE > jail in tinderbox using this ports tree is using perl5.10 by default. Sho= uld > I leave this as is or should I be using 5.12? > IMHO 5.10 is new enough! But the great thing about the Perl community is that it usually respects previous versions not like some other crazy, irresponsible "communities" such as PHP who can break your code from 5.2 to 5.3. > This is for a home desktop. > > eco# uname -a > FreeBSD eco.config 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:55:5= 3 > UTC 2010 root@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC =A0i38= 6 > > > thanks > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >