Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:36:21 +0100 From: Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.bawue.com> To: "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com> Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Sergey Skvortsov <skv@protey.ru> Subject: Re: [ports] cvs commit: ports UPDATING ports/Mk bsd.perl.mk ports/lang/perl5.8 Makefile Makefile.man distinfo pkg-plist ports/lang/perl5.8/files patch-freebsd.sh patch-makedepend patch-perl.c patch-sv.c patch-utf-regcomp Message-ID: <20090114163621.GC4867@voodoo.bawue.com> In-Reply-To: <496E1630.8040008@p6m7g8.com> References: <200901132138.n0DLcosP013731@repoman.freebsd.org> <20090113213900.DC9031065703@hub.freebsd.org> <20090114160829.GA4867@voodoo.bawue.com> <496E14C7.70306@protey.ru> <20090114162715.GB4867@voodoo.bawue.com> <496E1630.8040008@p6m7g8.com>
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:43:28AM -0500, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > > Could you elaborate on this topic and explain the reason for separate port? > Not everyone is going to update immediately. Also loads of the p5- ports will > have issues or be incompatible. You could run pointyhat for the issues with incompatibility. > ITs going to be dual lifed like perl 5.6 > > lang/perl5 > lang/perl5.8 > lang/perl5.10 Jeez... > 5.8.8 -> 5.8.9 is a 'patch release' witness the cvs commits for that > 5.6-x -> 5.8.8-> 5.10.x are major release. > > hopefully we'll drop 5.6.x once 5.10 is since its not maintained upstream and > is the last release is over a decade ago. -Kirill
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