Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:45:24 +0000 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: "B. Estrade" <estrabd@gmail.com> Cc: perl@freebsd.org, portmgr <portmgr@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Status of perl 5.10 Message-ID: <497B1B74.1060300@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20090124131813.GF8987@bc3.lsu.edu> References: <497AE877.1050103@FreeBSD.org> <20090124131813.GF8987@bc3.lsu.edu>
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B. Estrade wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:07:51AM +0000, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> Can someone give us an update on what is the status of preparation for >> importing perl 5.10? Who is working on it; what are the remaining >> obstacles; what can we do in future to avoid the delays? >> >> Without pointing fingers at individuals, it has become quite a disgrace >> to us as a project that we still do not have this in the ports tree >> after more than a year, and we'd like to determine how we can fix this ASAP. > > It looks like 5.8 was recently updated to 5.8.9. As a big time Perl > user and list lurker, I can say that in general there seem to be very > few people clamoring for 5.10. I'm not saying that it shouldn't be > available, but since it is meant to be more of a path to Perl 6 rather > than a maintenance release of the current Perl standard version (i.e., > 5.8), I don't think it is quite the disgrace you make it out to be. It does come up fairly often on the mailing lists I read, and given that I know there were plans last year for working on the import, something clearly changed or went wrong with those plans. I agree that continuing to keep up with future development is also important. Thanks for your offer of help, hopefully the perl@freebsd.org community will be able to take advantage of it. Kris > > Parrot is also not /that/ out of date, though the latest current > release is 0.9.0 where as the one in Ports is 0.8.2. I regularly smoke > test Parrot on FreeBSD 7 using the head of their repo, and everything > usually works out of the box anyway. > > Something important to actually be following is the continued progress > of Perl6 (Raduko) and the current efforts that are underway to move it > from parrot/languages to its own repo trunk. > > With all of that said, and since I am pretty aware of the state of > Perl and its ilk at any given point in time, I'd be happy to assist > whomever looks over Perl and/or Parrot as long as some handholding and > patience is abundant in the beginning. > > Cheers, > Brett > >> Thanks, >> >> Kris, for portmgr >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-perl@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-perl >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-perl-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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