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Date:      Wed, 17 Jan 2001 16:36:04 +0200
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [RFC] Retiring USE_PERL5 and PORTOBJFORMAT
Message-ID:  <3A65ADD4.10521B7E@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <3A657E57.4D5B94C3@FreeBSD.org> <20010117092520.C1481@puck.firepipe.net>

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Will Andrews wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 01:13:28PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > I would like to know what people think about wiping out USE_PERL5 and various
> > checks for PORTOBJFORMAT from port's Makefiles and bsd.port.mk. AFAIK, these
> > options are relicts from the some 2.x days and don't serve any real purpose
> > now.
>
> Sure on PORTOBJFORMAT.  But we may need the USE_PERL5 variable for Perl
> 5.6.0.  I don't see much reason to change the variable name, but
> anyway...

Huh? I can't imagine how it could be done w/o introducing USE_PERL5.6 or something
like that.

> I think the perl part is a tad more complicated than what you make it,
> so tread carefully there.

Sure, it's why I'm calling loudly for comments ;).

-Maxim



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