Brad Knowles wrote:
>
> At 11:59 AM -0400 2000/4/3, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote:
>
> > PERL is not just used by the FreeBSD system, it's also used by many
> > applications ran on top of FreeBSD. Those applications are more likely
> > to require an up-to-date version of PERL. We for one need the (overly
> > late) 64-bit support in PERL.
>
> MMMkay. Try this: cd /usr/ports/lang/perl && make install
Which either gives me two different versions of PERL to worry about or
forces me to use an unsupported version for making the world. It's bad
enough that I have to work around the sendmail bug in the base system
;-)
> This seems to me to be a much better solution, while we wait for
> Perl 5.6.x to stablize enough for it to actually be considered for
> inclusion in the FreeBSD base. ;-)
I don't mind waiting for PERL to stabilize, after all I wouldn't be able
to use it myself if it were unstable. But that's a different argument...
Cheers,
Jeroen
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