perl 5.8.3 in ports

Vivek Khera khera at kcilink.com
Wed Mar 24 13:13:42 PST 2004


On Mar 24, 2004, at 2:50 PM, Michael Nottebrock wrote:

> On Wednesday 24 March 2004 20:09, Vivek Khera wrote:
>
>> What are others doing who need the updated perl?  I'm trying to decide
>> to wait a bit longer for the port or just go ahead and install 5.8.3
>> from source.
>
> How about updating the port and submitting a patch? Btw., you should 
> probably
> ask the port-maintainer tobez at FreeBSD.org directly as well.

Well, I already maintain at least 4 ports (two of which are quite 
widely used -- postfix and mailman), and I'd rather not get roped into 
maintaining this one too...

Personally, I prefer not to be poked at my direct email since I monitor 
this list, but I suppose I could email tobez directly, too.



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