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Date:      Fri, 07 Apr 2000 00:57:16 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Alexander N. Kabaev" <kabaev@mail.ru>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org>, "Alexander N. Kabaev" <ak03@gte.com>
Subject:   Re: Perl 5.6.0?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000407005716.kabaev@mail.ru>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004062116510.24423-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>

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I am perfectly aware of the way OpenBSD builds contrib software. I am just
making a point that they have found perl 5.6.0 is stable enough to be
included into their OS. 
 
On 07-Apr-00 Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Alexander N. Kabaev wrote:
> 
>> According to OpenBSD ournal site, OpenBSD-current has perl 5.6.0 in it's
>> source
>> tree already.
> 
> OpenBSD don't even try to make their "bundled software" comply with the
> rest of the system build architecture - they basically just import the
> perl distribution into gnu/usr.bin/, munge some of the build bits, and let
> the software build the way it wants to. Needless to say, thats not an
> acceptable style for FreeBSD, not to mention probably breaking certain
> features we support such as cross-compilation :-)
> 
> Kris
> 
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E-Mail: Alexander N. Kabaev <kabaev@mail.ru>
Date: 07-Apr-00
Time: 00:51:49
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