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Date:      Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:31:14 -0400
From:      Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>
To:        Parv <parv@pair.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portupgrade to Perl 5.10.0 ??
Message-ID:  <FFFF7EDF-C4F9-470E-8951-722E153F891E@khera.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080711080103.GA2128@holstein.holy.cow>
References:  <200807100340.38399.david@vizion2000.net> <20080710064246.346e2200@scorpio> <20080711080103.GA2128@holstein.holy.cow>

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On Jul 11, 2008, at 4:01 AM, Parv wrote:

>> Perhaps they are planning on releasing it with, and hopefully
>> including it in the FreeBSD-7.1 release.
>
> That would be darn too long not to install on my own (unless 7.1 is
> coming out in a month)!
>

Not being one of the folks working on the port, I can't really say  
what the hold up is, or that those folks should drop everything else  
and work on this, but I must say that I find it pretty saddening to  
not have the port on such a major hunk of software over 6 months after  
it was released.  It doesn't need to be the default perl installed by  
the system, so that should not be the hold up.

When I talk to some linux folks they just laugh that we don't have a  
perl 5.10 yet.  It is embarrassing, actually, to go out and evangelize  
FreeBSD when there are delays like this.



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