From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 15 10:32:50 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 BD91437B401 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 10:32:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from edslocomb.net (dsl254-050-005.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.254.50.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E6A6243FA3 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 10:32:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ed@edslocomb.net) Received: (qmail 94752 invoked from network); 15 May 2003 17:39:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO robotslave) (216.254.50.8) by dsl254-050-005.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net with SMTP; 15 May 2003 17:39:40 -0000 Message-ID: <001401c31b07$fca81220$0832fed8@robotslave> From: "Ed" References: <20030515155313.GA390@freebsdmall.com> <20030515170742.GP53138@dansat.data-plan.com> Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 10:32:41 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 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 17:32:51 -0000 > > Also, it has been announced that a future release of the perl DBI > extension will require at least perl 5.6.1. > And the current version of XML::Parser won't install under 5.005, and there are probably more modules in CPAN that need perl>5.6, but don't check for it. And things are likely to get worse before they get better. CPAN has, de facto, left 5.00x behind. With that said, I didn't have any trouble running "use.perl port" once I figured out what was going on. My only question now is how I ought to go about removing the system version, but it's not all that pressing. If upgrading RELENG-4 to perl 5.6.1 would be a lot of work, then just leave it be, and add "use the ports version of perl" to the docs here and there.