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Date:      Fri, 7 Apr 2000 11:56:15 +0200
From:      Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
To:        "Alexander N. Kabaev" <kabaev@mail.ru>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Alexander N. Kabaev" <ak03@gte.com>
Subject:   Re: Perl 5.6.0?
Message-ID:  <v04220803b51360adedcf@[195.238.1.121]>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000407005716.kabaev@mail.ru>
References:  <XFMail.000407005716.kabaev@mail.ru>

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At 12:57 AM -0400 2000/4/7, Alexander N. Kabaev wrote:

>  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.

	It's my understanding that we already have a better and cleaner 
way of handling international versus US crypto issues with OpenSSH 
than they do, thanks to the stubs that were put into place in the 
libraries.

	Given this, and given the level of tight integration we have 
elsewhere with those things that we have taken the somewhat unusual 
step of integrating into FreeBSD, I don't take their inclusion of 
Perl 5.6.0 to be a necessary and sufficient condition for us to do 
the same.


	Just because someone else jumped off a bridge and has survived 
(so far), does this necessarily mean it's a good idea for us to try 
to follow suit at this stage?

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