On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:54:47PM -0500, John Von Essen wrote: > 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, that would break backwards compatibility with existing installations. Install the port if you want it. Kris
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