I have no real reason for including its functionality - I am as of yet -
pretty much a perl novice. However, judging by the past, the C compiler
upgrade is done in current - and I would think the perl upgrade would also
be done in current. I would think you would want to track this sort of
thing as closely as possible - unless there is an pending release - which
there isn't. Users will follow current to get the latest and greatest -
bleeding edge technology. Help test it. Seem to me the sooner it is
done, the more thoroughly tested it will be. One year ought to be long
enough :)
Tom Veldhouse
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On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Nick Hibma wrote:
>
> Are there actually any good reasons why we _should_ upgrade in the first
> place? Security fixes, added functionality we require, etc. The perl we
> have is stable and the problems it has are well known, which is good
> enough in 99% of the cases.
>
> Including Perl in the make world build is something entirely different
> from doing a make install /usr/ports, I'm sure.
>
> Nick
>
>
> > > > Are there any plans to merge perl-5.6.0 into current? I don't have any
> > > > plans for using it currently, but I curious.
> > >
> > > Hmm. What with the nightmarish build structure of perl, I'm sure that
> > > reading this is just going to wreck Mark's day. In light of that, and in
> > > the absence of both any real software that needs the upgrade, and
> > > lack of confidence in a really squeaky new release, why don't we all grant
> > > Mark a little slack on this, at least for a while.
> >
> > I've been running Perl 5 since before it was included with FreeBSD, and
> > I've never noticed anything nightmarish about the build process. I
> > tried 5.6 a couple of days ago, and it built and tested out of the
> > box.
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