On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 10:52:13AM +0100, Nick Hibma wrote:
> Are there actually any good reasons why we _should_ upgrade in the first
> place?
Of course. We now have an obsolete version of Perl. That should be
reason enough to upgrade.
5.6 is the first major release in over a year. It has significant new
syntax that I intend to start using immediately, as will much of the
rest of the Perl community. "Why haven't you upgraded yet?" is a
rather traditional battle cry.
I don't know whey they called it 5.6.0.. I'm dropping the .0, because
it seems to inspire the usual "point-oh fear". This is not a
"point-oh" release in the usual sense, and waiting for 5.6.1 would be
a mistake.
This message should not be construed as whining and prodding our Perl
maintainer. Although I haven't looked at how it's done, I'm sure that
integrating Perl with FreeBSD's build process is a difficult and
tedious thing, and if I wanted it that badly, I would be offering
patches. This is merely a rebuttal to the silly idea that FreeBSD
should stick with an obsolete version of Perl indefinately. It needs
to be updated in a timely manner, which probably means any time
before the next FreeBSD release. (With allowances for going into
current first, etc.).
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