Date: 23 Jul 1998 10:24:38 +0200 From: smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Perl5 as default for current Message-ID: <rx4emvd2cvt.fsf@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com> In-Reply-To: Garance A Drosihn's message of Wed, 22 Jul 1998 19:40:55 -0400 References: <v04011705b1dc2856c4b4@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> writes: > Are there plans to make the "standard" perl in FreeBSD be perl5? > (yes, I know perl5 is in /usr/local/bin, and that it's very easy > to get to there. I am just wondering if that will ever replace > the perl which is currently perl4). > > I do not pretend that this is critical to the future of mankind, > I'm just curious what the plans are... This has been discussed before, and as I recall, it was agreed that it would not happen until someone volunteered to go through every single Perl script in FreeBSD to make sure it will work with Perl 5. Perl syntax and semantics have been known to change somewhat gratuitously from one release to the next. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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