From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 11 15:51:15 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 BF1C3106566B for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:51:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from parv@pair.com) Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com [71.74.56.122]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7491C8FC20 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:51:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from parv@pair.com) Received: from localhost.hawaii.res.rr.com ([66.8.249.133]) by hrndva-omta04.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20080711155114.PEHL14962.hrndva-omta04.mail.rr.com@localhost.hawaii.res.rr.com>; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:51:14 +0000 Received: from holstein.holy.cow (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.hawaii.res.rr.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEC12329B; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:55:06 -1000 (HST) Received: (from parv@localhost) by holstein.holy.cow (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id m6BFt5ZO003573; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:55:05 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from parv@pair.com) X-Authentication-Warning: holstein.holy.cow: parv set sender to parv@pair.com using -f Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:55:05 -1000 From: Parv To: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" Message-ID: <20080711155505.GA1892@holstein.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" , Vivek Khera , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <200807100340.38399.david@vizion2000.net> <20080710064246.346e2200@scorpio> <20080711080103.GA2128@holstein.holy.cow> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Cc: Vivek Khera , 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 15:51:15 -0000 in message , wrote Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH thusly... > > > 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.) We are talking about a port here, not part of the base FreeBSD OS. Expecting a recent stable perl version six months after its release, in relative quietness, is not considered urgent, I think. Mind that perl was separated from base OS in order to have relatively fresh perl around, and not to wait for FreeBSD releases to get perl updated. A perl5.10 can easily exist with perl5 & perl5.8 ports. Some of the reasons for my excitement are faster performance of regex engine, named captures, ability to relocate (which would be interesting to see if that works or advisable within Ports infrastructure). - Parv --