Going the other way, we may want to add a perl5.12.3 to 10.[56] to help promote keeping the older dist's -pm packages updated as more developers switch to 10.7 as their primary target.
dan On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:27:36 -0700, "David R. Morrison" wrote: OK. I just did a test build of our perl5100 package and it failed, so needs work. > > So for now, we'll let things be, but if somebody wanted to work on > perl 5.10.0 to bring it forward, they are welcome to do it. > > I'll follow the received advice and not bring perl 5.8.8 forward. > > -- Dave > > On Jul 21, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: > > > On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:00:03 -0700, "David R. Morrison" wrote: > > In a discussion on irc this morning, there was a general consensus > to > bring Python 2.6 and 2.7 forward to 10.7, but not to bring > Python 2.5 > forward. I subsequently put the python26 and python27 > packages into > the 10.7 tree. >> >> What about perl? Should we > bring perl 5.8.8 forward, or leave it out? > > > Our recent pattern has been "keep starting at whatever the > previous cat > has as systerm-perl", which would mean 10.7 gets > 5.10.0. But that was > at least partly to keep things Just Working > when users upgraded to the > next cat. Now that we're breaking to a > new dist, I'm not sure we even > need to keep 5.10.0. There are a few > incompatibilities in the language > itself, but 5.12 has been out for > a long time already so they can > usually be fixed easily. perl5.8.8? > Oh hell no:) > > > dan > > > -- > > Daniel Macks > > dma...@netspace.org > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > 5 Ways to Improve & Secure Unified Communications > > Unified Communications promises greater efficiencies for business. > UC can > improve internal communications as well as offer faster, > more efficient ways > > to interact with customers and streamline customer service. Learn more! > > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51426253/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Fink-devel mailing list > > Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > List archive: > > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel > > Subscription management: > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 5 Ways to Improve & Secure Unified Communications > Unified Communications promises greater efficiencies for business. UC > can improve internal communications as well as offer faster, more > efficient ways > to interact with customers and streamline customer service. Learn more! > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51426253/ > _______________________________________________ > Fink-devel mailing list > Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > List archive: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel > Subscription management: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel > > -- Daniel Macks dma...@netspace.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5 Ways to Improve & Secure Unified Communications Unified Communications promises greater efficiencies for business. UC can improve internal communications as well as offer faster, more efficient ways to interact with customers and streamline customer service. Learn more! http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51426253/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
