With numerous ports now requiring perl 5.6 or newer will perl be a newer version in the base of 4.9? Jeff Seeman
At 2003-09-05T20:10:51Z, "jeff" <jeff@olymail.net> writes:> With numerous ports now requiring perl 5.6 or newer will perl be a newer > version in the base of 4.9?I don't think so. Why not install the lang/perl5 port? -- Kirk Strauser -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 188 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20030905/24340edd/attachment.bin
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, jeff wrote:> With numerous ports now requiring perl 5.6 or newer will perl be a newer > version in the base of 4.9?No. That would violate what we refer to as The Principle of Least Astonishment, or POLA for short. The whole definition of -stable is that some things remain the same for the life of the branch. To change it now would be breaking faith with the people who depend on it staying the same. As someone else pointed out, there are plenty of options for people who need newer perl on their -stable systems. Hope this helps, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection