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From: James FitzGibbon <james@nexis.net>
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On Mon, 26 May 1997, Satoshi Asami wrote:

>  *   Upgrade all ports requiring perl5.003 to perl5.004
> 
> Cool.  By the way, I'm thinking about introduce a new variable
> "USE_PERL5" when perl5 is imported to the main distribution.  It will
> work like USE_GMAKE in the 2.2 branch and be a no-op in the 3.0
> branch.

Sounds like good idea.  It would have certainly helped this upgrade,
although I doubt we'll see 5.005 before another year is out (unless 5.004
is botched...)

You say it will be a no-op in 3.0; does this mean that 5.004 is going into
the base tree ?

--
j.