From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 9 02:00:01 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFDE216A4CE for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2003 02:00:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from aaanet.ru (tmail.aaanet.ru [80.80.111.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93E0C43F85 for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2003 02:00:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from haba@aaanet.ru) Received: from [80.80.113.11] (helo=ads.x10.com) by aaanet.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1AImMC-000KiA-Hs; Sun, 09 Nov 2003 12:59:55 +0300 X-AntiVirus: Checked by Dr.Web (http://www.drweb.net) Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 04:34:25 +0300 From: Vladimir X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <572804781.20031108043425@aaanet.ru> To: Kris Kennaway In-Reply-To: <20031101210634.GA45077@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20031005080039.GA23414@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <000c01c3a0b7$8eef69a0$0100000a@Biggie> <20031101210634.GA45077@rot13.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: why are theynot updated WAS Re: samba 3.0, FreeBSD 5.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Vladimir List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 10:00:01 -0000 Hello, Kris. >> Also why is such an old version of perl 5.003 still in the freebsd base when >> 5.8 is out ? KK> Because 5.8 is not backwards-compatible with 5.00503, and updating the KK> base system version would break a lot of scripts used on installed KK> FreeBSD machines. You can trivially install perl 5.8 from the ports KK> collection if you want to use it. And what about 5.6? -- Regards, Vladimir mailto:haba@aaanet.ru