Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 13:31:59 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl 5.6 merged soon? Message-ID: <20010316133159.F2277@tao.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <200103160125.UAA53492@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 08:25:31PM -0500 References: <20010315080445.A57062@clyde.goodleaf.net> <20010315095551E.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <20010315121201.E54243@rand.tgd.net> <20010316004820.C4241@tao.org.uk> <200103160125.UAA53492@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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--9ADF8FXzFeE7X4jE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 08:25:31PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: > In article <mit.lcs.mail.freebsd-stable/20010316004820.C4241@tao.org.uk> = you write: > >For people who want to run perl 5.6.0 on -stable now they > >should be able to get away with 'NOPERL=3Dtrue' in /etc/make.conf > >and installing 5.6.0 by hand. >=20 > One of the big problems with uprevving the Perl in -stable is that the > Perl people don't seem to show much concern for binary compatibility. > As a result, when there's a new version of Perl put into the system, > anyone who has a non-trivial set of Perl extensions installed must > spend a good deal of time identifying them all and reinstalling every > one (and potentially any local applications that depend on them). If > I put my sysadmin hat on for a moment, I *really*, *really* don't want > to do this on production systems, and I would probably freeze my > -stable machines the instant before a new Perl hits the branch. That's what the new BSDPAN code is all about. Making CPAN installs accounted for in the system. Joe --9ADF8FXzFeE7X4jE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjqyFc4ACgkQXVIcjOaxUBZPTQCg4XI/BgW+DAScGtK+Sc5x7hMB BakAoMcTP6jSmunkHi4gXZIs9R+EM1VK =khRH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9ADF8FXzFeE7X4jE-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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