Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:49:22 +0000 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl 5.10? Message-ID: <20081226024922.3612bc02@gluon> In-Reply-To: <495437A9.80503@gmail.com> References: <329760.53824.qm@web53410.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20081223072719.16f3c047@scorpio> <495437A9.80503@gmail.com>
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On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:47:21 -0700 Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> wrote: > Jerry wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:06:46 -0800 (PST) > > "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" <bg271828@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > >> Its now just over a year since Perl 5.10.0 was relased, but its > >> still not in FreeBSD. (/usr/ports/lang only has 5.8). [...] > on the contrary, when 5.8 was released, it took a long time to move > to that. And when I asked that question on IRC (why 5.10 isn't > currently used), it was described to me that the 5.6 to 5.8 "move" > broke everything and caused lots of headache. World and Kernel used > to (at least) use perl as a glue to make stuff works. I bet there's > at least some 5.8 glue for world or kernel. perl was removed from the base system back in 2002 (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2002-May/000823.html) so there can't be anything in the world or kernel build that depends on it. It's one of the first things installed during an initial ports installation though. -- Bruce Cran
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