Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 21:07:59 +0100 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do! Message-ID: <Mutt.19961119210759.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <199611191814.LAA09210@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Nov 19, 1996 11:14:09 -0700 References: <199611190132.MAA25471@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <199611191814.LAA09210@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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According to Terry Lambert: > FreeBSD. People are *always* complaining "why don't you upgrade your > PERL?", even when it it well known that an upgrade frequently requires > updating all of the PERL-dependent scripts to the new syntax, since > the syntax is not sufficiently stable. Between Perl4 and Perl5, the changes are documented in perltrap. Between 5.x there have been very few syntaxic changes. You won't notice many changes between 5.003 and 5.004 in that respect. > For FreeBSD, the biggest problem is PERL dependent ports and MajorDomo; > PERL upgrades have been delayed for MajorDomo more than once in the > past. Majordomo has been Perl5 compatible as of 1.93. 1.94 runs fine under it. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #28: Sun Nov 10 13:37:41 MET 1996
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