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Date:      Thu, 15 May 2003 18:07:42 +0100
From:      Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@pobox.com>
To:        Charlie Root <murray@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Subject:   Re: Perl version in -STABLE
Message-ID:  <20030515170742.GP53138@dansat.data-plan.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030515155313.GA390@freebsdmall.com>
References:  <xzpy918mk3y.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030515155313.GA390@freebsdmall.com>

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On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:53:13AM -0700, Charlie Root wrote:
> 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.

Also, it has been announced that a future release of the perl DBI
extension will require at least perl 5.6.1.

Tim.



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