Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 12:54:00 -0500 (EST) From: "Stan Brown" <stanb@awod.com> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: A proposal to mitigate the limitations of keeping an older perl in STABLE Message-ID: <20001231175435.521B437B400@hub.freebsd.org>
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Given that: A. There is no movement to upgarde the perl in the STABLE tree to 5.6 B. That the 4.x tree will remain STABLE for a reasonable amount of time C. The purpose of the ports system is to make using non core free software easy. D. Thre are a reasoanble number of useful perl modules that will not work with the version of perl without modification. E. The modifications to at least some of these are trivial (for a good perl hacke, not you average user). I propose that an effor tshouldbe made to create ports for thesemodules that will include the approriate fixes. Coments? -- Stan Brown stanb@awod.com 843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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