From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 26 02:50:01 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05FBB106564A for ; Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:50:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [66.246.138.153]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CF258FC14 for ; Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:49:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25F7E192D5; Thu, 25 Dec 2008 21:49:28 -0500 (EST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on muon X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=8.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 Received: from gluon (tau.demon.co.uk [80.177.26.208]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA; Thu, 25 Dec 2008 21:49:28 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:49:22 +0000 From: Bruce Cran To: Tim Judd Message-ID: <20081226024922.3612bc02@gluon> In-Reply-To: <495437A9.80503@gmail.com> References: <329760.53824.qm@web53410.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20081223072719.16f3c047@scorpio> <495437A9.80503@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.9; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl 5.10? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:50:01 -0000 On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:47:21 -0700 Tim Judd wrote: > Jerry wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:06:46 -0800 (PST) > > "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" wrote: > > > > > >> Its now just over a year since Perl 5.10.0 was relased, but its > >> still not in FreeBSD. (/usr/ports/lang only has 5.8). [...] > on the contrary, when 5.8 was released, it took a long time to move > to that. And when I asked that question on IRC (why 5.10 isn't > currently used), it was described to me that the 5.6 to 5.8 "move" > broke everything and caused lots of headache. World and Kernel used > to (at least) use perl as a glue to make stuff works. I bet there's > at least some 5.8 glue for world or kernel. perl was removed from the base system back in 2002 (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2002-May/000823.html) so there can't be anything in the world or kernel build that depends on it. It's one of the first things installed during an initial ports installation though. -- Bruce Cran