Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 18:07:51 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>, tobez@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Subject: Re: Perl 5.6.1 in the base.... Message-ID: <20011207020751.29B40380D@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.011206163317.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: > > On 07-Dec-01 Sean Chittenden 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? > > > > I know I'm going to be busy for ~2 weeks and will have only limited > > amounts of time to work on this, but after that I should be wide open > > in terms of after hrs time. If I start chiseling away at this w/ a > > few other folks, however, is there the support/desire to integrate the > > changes? The reason I lobbed this out (and promptly ran for the door) > > was that I am under the impression that there is some precedent _not_ > > to use/like Perl 5.6. > > Nope. The perl in -current is 5.6.0. The problem is that the Perl upgrades > are quite hard to do and get right. My memory was that somebody signed up to do this update and take over from Mark Murray, but it appears that nothing came of it (or my memory is faulty, which is also distinctly likely). If we dont have any takers, I'll take a shot at it soon. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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