John Von Essen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am curious about something. > > When you cvsup to -STABLE and do a make world, the version of perl > that is built is 5.00503. The problem is that more and more perl mods > require 5.6 or higher. Even some stuff in ports which depends on perl > requires 5.6 or higher. According to > http://www.cpan.org/src/README.html the stable release of perl is > 5.8.0. > > So whats going on? Shouldn't -STABLE build Perl 5.8 now?
No. Some system scripts won't work with that. Because of this lack of backwards compatibility in the perl world, perl will be removed completely from the base system in the 5.x branch. Note, however, that on 4.x there's no problem with keeping 5.8 installed from ports, and the default system perl in its usual place. There's a nice mechanism installed for choosing between them at will. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
