From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 6 22:53:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.volant.org (phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A47337C271 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 22:53:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patl@phoenix.volant.org) Received: from asimov.phoenix.volant.org ([205.179.79.65]) by phoenix.volant.org with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #8) id 12dRhd-0003hl-00; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 22:53:10 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by asimov.phoenix.volant.org (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with SMTP id WAA18355; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 22:53:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 22:53:07 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org Reply-To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Subject: Re: Perl 5.6.0? To: Nick Hibma Cc: Christopher Masto , Chuck Robey , "Thomas T. Veldhouse" , FreeBSD-Current In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 3-Apr-00 at 02:56, Nick Hibma (n_hibma@calcaphon.com) wrote: > > Are there actually any good reasons why we _should_ upgrade in the first > place? Security fixes, added functionality we require, etc. The perl we > have is stable and the problems it has are well known, which is good > enough in 99% of the cases. > > Including Perl in the make world build is something entirely different > from doing a make install /usr/ports, I'm sure. You can't just make install in /usr/ports/lang/perl any more - there's a FORBIDDEN in there. -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message