From owner-cvs-all Tue Apr 30 8:14:17 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (gw.Awfulhak.org [217.204.245.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E5DB37B419; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 08:14:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [IPv6:fec0::1:12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3UFE8sG042697; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 16:14:08 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@freebsd-services.com) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g3UFE64G019541; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 16:14:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@freebsd-services.com) Message-Id: <200204301514.g3UFE64G019541@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Ceri Davies , Mark Murray , Josef Karthauser , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/perl5 MAINTAIN [...] In-Reply-To: Message from Sheldon Hearn of "Tue, 30 Apr 2002 16:30:40 +0200." <41785.1020177040@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 16:14:06 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. -- Brian http://www.freebsd-services.com/ Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message