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Date:      Wed, 20 Nov 1996 10:53:40 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Who needs Perl?  We do!
Message-ID:  <199611200023.KAA03878@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19961119200645.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> from Ollivier Robert at "Nov 19, 96 08:06:45 pm"

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Ollivier Robert stands accused of saying:
> 
> Perl 5.004 is rounding the corner. 5.003_08 just came out and 5.003_09 will
> be 5.004-candidate. 
>  
> Many thinks are broken (even if people don't tumble often on them) and
> 5.004 should be stable.

Ok.  I am still waiting for a hand up from someone who has a
contrib-ready perl5.

> BTW OpenBSD has already done the integration into a bmake-based tree so we
>     could look at how they've done it.

Not to diss the OBSD guys, but the contrib technique is a bit different,
and I think we will want to do it like that.

> Ollivier ROBERT    -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-    roberto@keltia.freenix.fr

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