From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 15 08:53:14 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0E8437B401 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 08:53:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from builder.freebsdmall.com (builder.freebsdmall.com [65.86.180.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DF4543F85 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 08:53:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@builder.freebsdmall.com) Received: by builder.freebsdmall.com (Postfix, from userid 0) id D12A0140F; Thu, 15 May 2003 08:53:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 08:53:13 -0700 From: Charlie Root To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Message-ID: <20030515155313.GA390@freebsdmall.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/0E451F7D X-GPG-Key-Fingerprint: E2CA 411D DD44 53FD BB4B 3CB5 B4D7 10A2 0E45 1F7D cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl version in -STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 15:53:15 -0000 On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 03:10:09PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > I would therefore like to suggest that the version of Perl in the > -STABLE tree be upgraded to 5.6.1, which is old enough to be known- > good (and not deviate too much from 5.005_03) and yet new enough to > incoroporate some of the more useful improvements to have appeared > since 1999. If memory serves, it also takes significantly less time > to build than 5.8.0. I would also like to see this happen. I think the 5.6.1 upgrade should have already happened in -STABLE, but it's better late than never. - Murray