Perl 5.10.0

2008-06-11 Thread Gerard
Just before FBSD-7 was released, I asked if Perl 5.10.0 would be included in the new version. I was informed that it would not be; however, it would be released shortly after FBSD-7 was released. Well, FBSD-7 has been out for a while now; however, I still do not see the updated version of Perl

Re: Perl-5.10.0 in FBSD-7.0

2008-01-25 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Thursday 24 January 2008 06:02:25 am Gerard wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:19:29 +0100 > > Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gerard wrote: > > > I have not been able to find any information in regards to the > > > latest version of Perl, version 5.10.0, released in December. > > > >

Re: Perl-5.10.0 in FBSD-7.0

2008-01-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: It's not going to happen. I completely agree -- but I'm talking about it being the default perl version. There shouldn't be much of anything stopping lang/perl5.10 from appearing. I'm not saying it needs to be shipped with 7.0-release. As ment

Re: Perl-5.10.0 in FBSD-7.0

2008-01-24 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Kris Kennaway wrote: It's not going to happen. I completely agree -- but I'm talking about it being the default perl version. There shouldn't be much of anything stopping lang/perl5.10 from appearing. I'm not saying it needs to be shipped with 7.0-release. -- -

Re: Perl-5.10.0 in FBSD-7.0

2008-01-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
Gerard wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:19:29 +0100 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gerard wrote: I have not been able to find any information in regards to the latest version of Perl, version 5.10.0, released in December. 1) When will this version be available in the ports system? Aft

Re: Perl-5.10.0 in FBSD-7.0

2008-01-24 Thread Gerard
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:19:29 +0100 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gerard wrote: > > I have not been able to find any information in regards to the > > latest version of Perl, version 5.10.0, released in December. > > > > 1) When will this version be available in the ports system? > >

Re: Perl-5.10.0 in FBSD-7.0

2008-01-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
<http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/perl-5.10.0/pod/perl5100delta.pod>), and in particular the section headed ``incompatible changes'', it looks like a small number of odd corners (for example, chdir FOO - unquoted argument now treated as filehandle not directory name) rather than a whole

Re: Perl-5.10.0 in FBSD-7.0

2008-01-24 Thread Jonathan McKeown
n.org/~rgarcia/perl-5.10.0/pod/perl5100delta.pod>), and in particular the section headed ``incompatible changes'', it looks like a small number of odd corners (for example, chdir FOO - unquoted argument now treated as filehandle not directory name) rather than a wholesale change like

Re: Perl-5.10.0 in FBSD-7.0

2008-01-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
Gerard wrote: I have not been able to find any information in regards to the latest version of Perl, version 5.10.0, released in December. 1) When will this version be available in the ports system? After 7.0 is released. 2) Will FreeBSD-7.0 use this as the default Perl version? Not as it

Perl-5.10.0 in FBSD-7.0

2008-01-23 Thread Robert Huff
Gerard writes: > 2) Will FreeBSD-7.0 use this as the default Perl version? > > It seems rather silly to use the older version as the default in > FBSD-7.0 since a newer version is available. I don't speak for the Release Engineering team, but: almost certainly not. Perl is u

Perl-5.10.0 in FBSD-7.0

2008-01-23 Thread Gerard
I have not been able to find any information in regards to the latest version of Perl, version 5.10.0, released in December. 1) When will this version be available in the ports system? 2) Will FreeBSD-7.0 use this as the default Perl version? It seems rather silly to use the older version as the