From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 22 21:45:45 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4446106566C for ; Sun, 22 May 2011 21:45:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 65-241-43-5.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74BE11583AD; Sun, 22 May 2011 21:45:42 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4DD98405.3040209@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 14:45:41 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110429 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jamie Paul Griffin References: <4DD8D55E.10507@webrz.net> <20110522221908.GA39017@think.gnix.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20110522221908.GA39017@think.gnix.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl | Frequent update X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 21:45:45 -0000 On 05/22/2011 15:19, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 10:57:56AM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: > >> What's the point? >> >> Even minor versions of perl are stable, and odd numbers are the >> development branches -- rather like the kernel of That Other Less-Free >> OS. >> >> It's updated frequently because it's being worked upon by such a large >> development team now -- it's progress! >> >> Chris > > I think he's getting at the fact it's a PITA to rebuild everything so often, especially when some of the large ports take so long to compile. If you're happy with the version of perl that you have, stick with it. In 99.9% of cases you don't need to rebuild everything that depends on perl, you only need to rebuild things that stuff files in /usr/local/lib/perl5/$oldversion and/or /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/$oldversion. hth, Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/