Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 18:09:51 -0600 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, tobez@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Perl 5.6.1 in the base.... Message-ID: <20011206180951.F92148@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20011206144905.B73442@ninja1.internal>; from sean@chittenden.org on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 02:49:05PM -0800 References: <20011206144905.B73442@ninja1.internal>
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* Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> [011206 16:51] wrote:
>
> Can someone take this issue up on either -core or even here? I
> personally would be an advocate of having _both_ versions of perl
> become packages/ports and then at sys-install time you're forced to
> choose one of the two versions (need at least one version of perl
> installed). 4.5 seems like a good time to get 5.6 out there, IMHO.
At this point it's more an issue of man power than if we want to
do it or not. It sure seems like a good idea, do you think you
can contribute the patches needed? Can anyone else get working on
this?
--
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3
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