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 > > ---- > In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. > -- Charles Forsythe <forsythe@alum.mit.edu> ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Alexander N. Kabaev <kabaev@mail.ru> Date: 07-Apr-00 Time: 00:51:49 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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