From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 6 21:57:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from msk1.mail.ru (mx1.mail.ru [194.67.23.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3450737B83F; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 21:57:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kabaev@mail.ru) Received: from h0050da20495b.ne.mediaone.net ([24.147.104.88] helo=kan.ne.mediaone.net) by msk1.mail.ru with esmtp (Exim 3.02 #173) id 12dQwW-000KUe-00; Fri, 07 Apr 2000 09:04:28 +0400 Received: (from kan@localhost) by kan.ne.mediaone.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA00420; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 00:57:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from kan) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 00:57:16 -0400 (EDT) From: "Alexander N. Kabaev" To: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Perl 5.6.0? Cc: FreeBSD-Current , "Alexander N. Kabaev" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am perfectly aware of the way OpenBSD builds contrib software. I am just making a point that they have found perl 5.6.0 is stable enough to be included into their OS. On 07-Apr-00 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Alexander N. Kabaev wrote: > >> According to OpenBSD ournal site, OpenBSD-current has perl 5.6.0 in it's >> source >> tree already. > > OpenBSD don't even try to make their "bundled software" comply with the > rest of the system build architecture - they basically just import the > perl distribution into gnu/usr.bin/, munge some of the build bits, and let > the software build the way it wants to. Needless to say, thats not an > acceptable style for FreeBSD, not to mention probably breaking certain > features we support such as cross-compilation :-) > > Kris > > ---- > In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. > -- Charles Forsythe ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Alexander N. Kabaev Date: 07-Apr-00 Time: 00:51:49 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message