Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:48:07 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl 5.10? Message-ID: <18772.57495.784652.374754@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <20081226080502.7d21a54a@scorpio> References: <329760.53824.qm@web53410.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20081223072719.16f3c047@scorpio> <495437A9.80503@gmail.com> <20081226024922.3612bc02@gluon> <4954D1D8.7070604@FreeBSD.org> <20081226080502.7d21a54a@scorpio>
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Jerry <gesbbb@yahoo.com> writes: > Are ports being tied to specific versions of Perl? I did some > Googling and found that of the users that have installed Perl > from source on FBSD, most were not experiencing any major > problem. If every time Perl is updated it will require massive > changes or whatever to the FBSD ports, then perhaps there is a > fundamental flaw in the ports system to start with. There is no requirement any port use Perl. Many do. There is no requiremment that any Perl-using port use a particular version. Many - I would guess most - do, at least to the extent of requiring the same major version (e.g. 5.x). There are 63 instances of USE_PERL5 in ports/textproc alone. I'm not a major direct Perl user, but I remember the jumps from 5.0 to 5.6 and from 5.6 to 5.8. Both required the testing of every affected port, and as I remember it problems were discovered in both the ports and in the new Perl itself. Robert Huff
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