Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 05:49:41 -0400 From: Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: perl@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rebuild all ports for perl minor version update? Message-ID: <20130614054941.66ea1913@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <51BAD1D7.5020500@marino.st> References: <88415.98533.bm@smtp104.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <51BAD1D7.5020500@marino.st>
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On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:18:31 +0200 John Marino articulated: > According to OpenBSD's Marc Espie on a pkgsrc list, a lot of > established scripts will break on perl 5.18. Apparently it is not > highly backwards compatible. > > A large % of the perl packages would cease to build if they just > moved to 5.18. A minor upgrade is definitely better. So what does that mean for the future of Perl-5.18 & FreeBSD? I haven't seen any unusual chatter in other forums for other OSs regarding a problem with Perl-5.18. Hell, even SlashDot has not had any negative chatter that I am aware of and they are always the first to jump on any software problem, real or imaginary. Is this a FreeBSD "specific" problem and if so, what is being done to eradicate it? -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __________________________________________________________________ If you don't have time to do it right, where are you going to find the time to do it over?home | help
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