Re: which perl?
Alejandro Imass wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hi, Todays ports tree has lang/perl5.10 and lang/perl5.12. A new 8.1-RELEASE jail in tinderbox using this ports tree is using perl5.10 by default. Should I leave this as is or should I be using 5.12? IMHO 5.10 is new enough! But the great thing about the Perl community is that it usually respects previous versions not like some other crazy, irresponsible "communities" such as PHP who can break your code from 5.2 to 5.3. Doesn't sound like there are strong reasons for going for 5.12 so I'll stick with the default. thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: which perl?
Quoth Peter Ulrich Kruppa on Thursday, 23 September 2010: > On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >Todays ports tree has lang/perl5.10 and lang/perl5.12. A new 8.1-RELEASE > >jail in tinderbox using this ports tree is using perl5.10 by default. > >Should I leave this as is or should I be using 5.12? > > > >This is for a home desktop. > > > >eco# uname -a > >FreeBSD eco.config 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:55:53 > >UTC 2010 r...@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > > Of course you never know, but on my Desktop I have got 390 ports > depending on perl5.12 and everything seems to work. > > Greetings > > Uli. > Ditto here. 220 dependent ports, no troubles. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com pgpx8KNaG0CUS.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: which perl?
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hi, Todays ports tree has lang/perl5.10 and lang/perl5.12. A new 8.1-RELEASE jail in tinderbox using this ports tree is using perl5.10 by default. Should I leave this as is or should I be using 5.12? This is for a home desktop. eco# uname -a FreeBSD eco.config 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:55:53 UTC 2010 r...@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Of course you never know, but on my Desktop I have got 390 ports depending on perl5.12 and everything seems to work. Greetings Uli. thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | Wuppertal | Germany ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: which perl?
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > Hi, > > Todays ports tree has lang/perl5.10 and lang/perl5.12. A new 8.1-RELEASE > jail in tinderbox using this ports tree is using perl5.10 by default. Should > I leave this as is or should I be using 5.12? > IMHO 5.10 is new enough! But the great thing about the Perl community is that it usually respects previous versions not like some other crazy, irresponsible "communities" such as PHP who can break your code from 5.2 to 5.3. > This is for a home desktop. > > eco# uname -a > FreeBSD eco.config 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:55:53 > UTC 2010 r...@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > > thanks > > Chris > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
which perl?
Hi, Todays ports tree has lang/perl5.10 and lang/perl5.12. A new 8.1-RELEASE jail in tinderbox using this ports tree is using perl5.10 by default. Should I leave this as is or should I be using 5.12? This is for a home desktop. eco# uname -a FreeBSD eco.config 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:55:53 UTC 2010 r...@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
