Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 18:43:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Brennan Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WindRiver takeover. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104051839150.89661-100000@home.offwhite.net> In-Reply-To: <20010405104816.D746@tao.org.uk>
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Could you tell me which perl utilities that the base FreeBSD install are
cuased to break when perl is upgraded to 5.6? The one language that I
know very well is perl and I may be able to fix the scripts that break, or
replace them with new scripts which do the same thing.
I would be wary to install this on my live server but I do have a FreeBSD
box at home which dual boots with windows so I can play games. I could do
the fixes on there and then work with one of the usual FreeBSD developers
to come up with a way to get Perl 5.6 to install safely.
I have never messed with a port before, so I would have to learn a little
about that process.
Brennan Stehling - software developer and system administrator
my projects:
home.offwhite.net (free personal hosting)
www.greasydaemon.com (bsd search)
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:58:49PM -0500, Brennan Stehling wrote:
> > It is an interesting time for FreeBSD. Perhaps it is a good time for me
> > to branch off my own version and call it BrennanBSD... and in 5 years the
> > motto could be...
> >
> > "5 years without any source code changes"
> >
> > I think FreeBSD 4.2 is very solid and very close to perfect. The OpenSSH
> > and OpenSSL integration along with several of the VM optimizations make
> > me quite happy to run it on the systems I manage. I read that Perl 5.6 is
> > going to be the default perl for 4.3 RELEASE and perhaps that is enough to
> > get me to upgrade, but I would hate to reboot my personal server.
>
> No this isn't the case, 5.5.3 is still in -stable, there is development
> work going on in this area though.
>
> genesis% perl -V
> Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
>
> There is a perl5.6 port now:
>
> cvs log -rHEAD /usr/ports/lang/perl5/Makefile
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> revision 1.36
> date: 2001/03/22 15:17:46; author: markm; state: Exp; lines: +67 -51
> Upgrade this to perl5.6.0 for _knowledgeable_ folks in STABLE who
> really want it.
>
> This is still marked FORBIDDEN as there may be all sorts of horrible
> incompatabilities with the perl5 in "base", but folks who are willing
> to override this and experiment are welcome.
>
> Consider this to be only partially supported. I'll happily commit
> patches and fixes, but I don't want to answer too many questions.
>
> Sorry!
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Joe
>
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