Bruce Cran wrote:
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:47:21 -0700
Tim Judd <[email protected]> wrote:
Jerry wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:06:46 -0800 (PST)
"Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" <[email protected]> wrote:
Its now just over a year since Perl 5.10.0 was relased, but its
still not in FreeBSD. (/usr/ports/lang only has 5.8).
[...]
on the contrary, when 5.8 was released, it took a long time to move
to that. And when I asked that question on IRC (why 5.10 isn't
currently used), it was described to me that the 5.6 to 5.8 "move"
broke everything and caused lots of headache. World and Kernel used
to (at least) use perl as a glue to make stuff works. I bet there's
at least some 5.8 glue for world or kernel.
perl was removed from the base system back in 2002
(http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2002-May/000823.html)
so there can't be anything in the world or kernel build that depends on
it. It's one of the first things installed during an initial ports
installation though.
It is still true that the change from 5.6 to 5.8 was very disruptive
because it broke lots of things in the ports tree.
Kris
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