From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 11 14:49:36 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FFC61065675 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:49:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from yertle.kcilink.com (thingy.kcilink.com [74.92.149.59]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4897F8FC19 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:49:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from host-121.int.kcilink.com (host-121.int.kcilink.com [192.168.7.121]) by yertle.kcilink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9135D8A211; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:31:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: From: Vivek Khera To: Parv In-Reply-To: <20080711080103.GA2128@holstein.holy.cow> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v926) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:31:14 -0400 References: <200807100340.38399.david@vizion2000.net> <20080710064246.346e2200@scorpio> <20080711080103.GA2128@holstein.holy.cow> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.926) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade to Perl 5.10.0 ?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:49:36 -0000 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. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-869-4449 x806