Status of perl 5.10

Mathieu Arnold mat at mat.cc
Tue Jan 27 02:03:40 PST 2009


+--On 25 janvier 2009 16:21:26 -0500 "Philip M. Gollucci"
<pgollucci at p6m7g8.com> wrote:
|>>> Can someone give us an update on what is the status of preparation 
|>>> for importing perl 5.10?  Who is working on it; what are the 
|>>> remaining obstacles; what can we do in future to avoid the delays?
| w/ mod_perl hat (and p5p-), I think the largest obstacle really is
| setting CONFLICTS
| and getting -exp runs.
| 
| I mean perl 5.10 compiles on freebsd.  Creating the port can be done
| fairly quickly.
| leaving lang/perl5.8 as the default.  If portmgr@ wants to do an -exp
| run, I take a whack at it today.
| 
| Its going to react fairly similiar to the 5.8.9 import, the only
| differnce is *MORE*
| modules are now dual life and in core.  Which means more ugly .if
| PERL_VER >.

I think you all should ask the perl maintainer, that is, which is, if I'm
not mistaken, skv@ who took over from tobez@ so that he could do the 5.10
import.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold


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