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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