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To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami)
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Subject: Re: perl and other fixes to bsd.port.mk 
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 09:10:04 +0200
From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
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Satoshi Asami wrote:
>  * From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
> 
> Thanks for your comment, but....
> 
>  * Satoshi Asami wrote:
>  * > How about this one?  It defines new variables ${PERL_VERSION}
>  * > (5.00501) and ${PERL_VER} (5.005), which are substituted for
>  * > %%PERL_VERSION%% and %%PERL_VERS%% in the PLIST.
>  * 
>  * This is all cool, but I am about half-way through working on 
>  * Perl5 for CURRENT, which will make all of this moot.
> 
> (1) Perl5 will not go in to -stable (which is the current "supported"
>     release, and we have one more release coming up from that branch),
>     so it will not be moot.

Ah! I got confused, and was assuming that 2.2.6 was the final
release in 2.2.*.

> (2) The add-on packages (p5-* ports) will remain in the ports tree, so
>     I don't understand why perl5 going into /usr/src has anything to
>     do with the situation.

I am going to nuke all references to the version number in directory names.

M
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