Hello, Kris.
>> Also why is such an old version of perl 5.003 still in the freebsd base when
>> 5.8 is out ?
KK> Because 5.8 is not backwards-compatible with 5.00503, and updating the
KK> base system version would break a lot of scripts used on installed
KK> FreeBSD machines. You can trivially i
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Thanks for the info.
Mark
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From: "andi payn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "SWIT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "freebsd-questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: why are theynot updated WAS
Meanwhile, on Sat, 2003-11-01 at 12:34, SWIT wrote:
> I am just curious. But for those that continually sing unix over ms praise
> you think that matters like this would be looked after so
> unixes would be easier for the common man/woman to use.
Do you think Microsoft always gives you new code as
"SWIT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> :
> > > On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 11:06, Mike Maltese wrote:
> > > > > It's in
> > > > > /usr/ports/net/samba-devel/
> > > > >
> > > > Yes, but the port hasn't been updated to the release version.
>
> newbie question.
> why isn't the ports updated ? Seems alot of
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 03:34:30PM -0500, SWIT wrote:
> newbie question.
> why isn't the ports updated ? Seems alot of times the ports is outdated by a
> version or more.
> I mean if everyone is always saying its in the ports should they not be
> better upkeeped ?
1) FreeBSD is a volunteer proje
:
> > On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 11:06, Mike Maltese wrote:
> > > > It's in
> > > > /usr/ports/net/samba-devel/
> > > >
> > > Yes, but the port hasn't been updated to the release version.
newbie question.
why isn't the ports updated ? Seems alot of times the ports is outdated by a
version or more.
I m
