Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 16:14:06 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> Cc: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/perl5 MAINTAIN [...] Message-ID: <200204301514.g3UFE64G019541@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> of "Tue, 30 Apr 2002 16:30:40 %2B0200." <41785.1020177040@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
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> On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:19:53 +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
>
> > > Mostly upheld by a small modification to the Apache ports.
> >
> > And if I don't use Apache ?
>
> Then you'll probably cotton on pretty smartly. :-)
>
> You're arguing a valid point, but you need to consider the background
> for the change -- the staleness of the CGI.pm module in the perl
> distribution has caused trouble for lots of people in the past, so this
> change does _some_ good.
>
> Just not the good you want. :-)
>
> A near-perfect alternative solution is for someone with LOADS of free
> time onhand to commit to keeping the perl modules on HEAD and RELENG_4
> well-sync'd with distribution versions. This is not a part time job, so
> in the meantime, this change will make some people happy.
Is it not possible to switch @INC around in the base system so that
/usr/local/ appears first ? Assuming there are no problems with that,
it'd make everyone happy (then we can figure out how to fix the
conflicts between CGI.pm and p5-CGI-modules!!!).
Just my (probably useless) $0.02.
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