On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 05:56:22PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
>
> > 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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