Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:45:12 +0000 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl 5.10? Message-ID: <4954D1D8.7070604@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20081226024922.3612bc02@gluon> References: <329760.53824.qm@web53410.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20081223072719.16f3c047@scorpio> <495437A9.80503@gmail.com> <20081226024922.3612bc02@gluon>
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Bruce Cran wrote: > On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:47:21 -0700 > Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Jerry wrote: >>> On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:06:46 -0800 (PST) >>> "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" <bg271828@yahoo.com> 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. > It is still true that the change from 5.6 to 5.8 was very disruptive because it broke lots of things in the ports tree. Kris
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