Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 07:01:10 -0500 (CDT) From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@fuggle.veldy.net> To: Nick Hibma <n_hibma@calcaphon.com> Cc: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>, FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Perl 5.6.0? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004030657140.13879-100000@fuggle.veldy.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0004031050131.9381-100000@localhost>
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I have no real reason for including its functionality - I am as of yet - pretty much a perl novice. However, judging by the past, the C compiler upgrade is done in current - and I would think the perl upgrade would also be done in current. I would think you would want to track this sort of thing as closely as possible - unless there is an pending release - which there isn't. Users will follow current to get the latest and greatest - bleeding edge technology. Help test it. Seem to me the sooner it is done, the more thoroughly tested it will be. One year ought to be long enough :) Tom Veldhouse veldy@veldy.net On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Nick Hibma wrote: > > Are there actually any good reasons why we _should_ upgrade in the first > place? Security fixes, added functionality we require, etc. The perl we > have is stable and the problems it has are well known, which is good > enough in 99% of the cases. > > Including Perl in the make world build is something entirely different > from doing a make install /usr/ports, I'm sure. > > Nick > > > > > > Are there any plans to merge perl-5.6.0 into current? I don't have any > > > > plans for using it currently, but I curious. > > > > > > Hmm. What with the nightmarish build structure of perl, I'm sure that > > > reading this is just going to wreck Mark's day. In light of that, and in > > > the absence of both any real software that needs the upgrade, and > > > lack of confidence in a really squeaky new release, why don't we all grant > > > Mark a little slack on this, at least for a while. > > > > I've been running Perl 5 since before it was included with FreeBSD, and > > I've never noticed anything nightmarish about the build process. I > > tried 5.6 a couple of days ago, and it built and tested out of the > > box. > > -- > > Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications > > chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net http://www.netmonger.net > > > > Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > > > -- > n_hibma@webweaving.org > n_hibma@freebsd.org USB project > http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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