From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 19 11:45:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA27322 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 11:45:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA27314 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 11:45:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA01913 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 20:45:36 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id UAA22152 for hackers@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 20:45:02 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.2/keltia-uucp-2.9) id UAA29062; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 20:06:45 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 20:06:45 +0100 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do! References: <199611190132.MAA25471@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.50.05 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#2686 In-Reply-To: <199611190132.MAA25471@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from Michael Smith on Nov 19, 1996 12:02:02 +1030 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Michael Smith: > - a contrib-ready Perl, at release quality. ie., not the 'patch de jour' > but the equivalent of a -STABLE version. Perl 5.004 is rounding the corner. 5.003_08 just came out and 5.003_09 will be 5.004-candidate. Many thinks are broken (even if people don't tumble often on them) and 5.004 should be stable. > - an undertaking from several to keep an eye on Perl development, and > update the in-contrib Perl as appropriate. I'm keeping eyes on main Perl dev. thru perl5-porters as probably others do. As for modules, we have a Perl5-port guru :-) BTW OpenBSD has already done the integration into a bmake-based tree so we could look at how they've done 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