From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 11 15:19:59 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 18B0F1065676 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:19:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from allbery@ece.cmu.edu) Received: from bache.ece.cmu.edu (BACHE.ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.129.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0494B8FC1F for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:19:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from allbery@ece.cmu.edu) Received: from mress.kf8nh.com (dsl093-061-215.pit1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.61.215]) by bache.ece.cmu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 135C8C5; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:57:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" To: Vivek Khera In-Reply-To: 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 10:57:11 -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, Parv 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 15:19:59 -0000 On 2008 Jul 11, at 10:31, Vivek Khera wrote: > 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. As a practical matter, is 5.10 really all that urgent? (Bleeding-edge Linuxers don't count; FreeBSD is a production OS.) -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH