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Date:      Thu, 15 May 2003 08:53:13 -0700
From:      Charlie Root <murray@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Perl version in -STABLE
Message-ID:  <20030515155313.GA390@freebsdmall.com>
In-Reply-To: <xzpy918mk3y.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
References:  <xzpy918mk3y.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 03:10:09PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> I would therefore like to suggest that the version of Perl in the
> -STABLE tree be upgraded to 5.6.1, which is old enough to be known-
> good (and not deviate too much from 5.005_03) and yet new enough to
> incoroporate some of the more useful improvements to have appeared
> since 1999.  If memory serves, it also takes significantly less time
> to build than 5.8.0.

  I would also like to see this happen.  I think the 5.6.1 upgrade
should have already happened in -STABLE, but it's better late than
never.

	- Murray



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