[HEADS-UP] switching default Perl to 5.22

Mathieu Arnold mat at FreeBSD.org
Fri Aug 28 15:49:35 UTC 2015



+--On 28 août 2015 17:44:55 +0200 Mathieu Arnold <mat at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
| +--On 28 août 2015 17:34:49 +0200 Mark Martinec
| <Mark.Martinec+freebsd at ijs.si> 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.
| 
| Oh, yes, Perl 5.20 will still be until 2018-12-31, as will 5.18 until
| 2017-12-31 and 5.16 until 2016-12-31 :-)

Scratch that, remove one year for all those 0:-)

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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