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Cc: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>, Parv <parv@pair.com>
Subject: Re: portupgrade to Perl 5.10.0 ??
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On Friday 11 July 2008 07:57:11 Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> 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.)

That sounds a bit complacent to me. I hope others are not likely to be so 
dismissive of the needs of others.
David