Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 13:38:35 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Perl 5.6.1 in the base.... Message-ID: <XFMail.011210133835.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200112090555.fB95tDQ18827@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On 09-Dec-01 Garrett Wollman wrote: > [Apologies for getting into this discussion late... I just a few hours > ago got back from LISA in San Diego.] > >>Nope. The perl in -current is 5.6.0. The problem is that the Perl upgrades >>are quite hard to do and get right. > > And the Perl in -stable should stay as it is, unless you want to start > erecting a giant banner that reads, ``FreeBSD Project screws -stable > users yet again''. > > Remember, whenever the Perl version changes, every single Perl > extension on the system has to be (at best) reinstalled. That's > assuming, of course, that you can find them all. I don't mind that. Perhaps fixing the perl port so that perl 5.6.1 can be installed on 4.x systems as a port would be the best approach to take. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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