[HEADS-UP] switching default Perl to 5.22

Matthew Seaman matthew at freebsd.org
Fri Aug 28 15:47:22 UTC 2015


On 08/28/15 16:34, Mark Martinec wrote:
> 2015-08-28 17:16, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
>> +--On 28 août 2015 17:13:34 +0200 Kurt Jaeger <lists at opsec.eu> wrote:
>> |> |> In one or two weeks, I'll be switching the default Perl version to
>> |> |> 5.22, and from now on, the new Perl will be added at the end of May
>> |> |> when released, and switched to at the beginning of September.
>> |> |
>> |> | mod_perl is still broken with 5.22. Which is very sad. So maybe
>> |> | it's premature to switch the default ?
>> |>
>> |> But, it was building when I added Perl 5.22 in May, when did it
>> break ?
>> |
>> | ohauer marked it broken on the 9th of June.
>>
>> Oh, maybe it did not work and I told myself "never mind, mod_perl never
>> works anyway"
> 
> The lang/perl5.20 will still be in ports, for anyone that needs it.
> 
> Being heavy Perl users we have switched to 5.22 when it hit the ports,
> and I have no complaints about it.

How many ports are going to be hit by CGI no longer being one of the
core modules?  I've certainly got a couple of my own to fix.

	Cheers,

	Matthew


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