Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 08:53:13 -0700 From: Charlie Root <murray@FreeBSD.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl version in -STABLE Message-ID: <20030515155313.GA390@freebsdmall.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpy918mk3y.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <xzpy918mk3y.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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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
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