freebsd 4.8 and the spamassassin 2.6x port

[Charles Swiger]

On Jan 23, 2004, at 8:13 PM, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> Why perl 5.8?  My 5.2 machine is running postfix, perl 5.6.1 and 
> amavisd-new
> without any trouble at all.

I don't believe that there is anything wrong with perl-5.6.x.

For that matter, I don't feel religious opposition to using the stock 
perl as shipped with FreeBSD 4.x, but even earlier versions of 
SpamAssassin recommended using 5.6 or later.  SA has a bunch of 
dependencies on various perl modules (HTML and MIME-handling stuff, 
mostly), and 5.8 obviously comes with a more recent version of such.

There is some dichotomy between upgrading Perl stuff via CPAN versus 
via the ports, which is why it might be reasonable for individuals to 
decide whether they want to follow the Perl archive directly or wait 
for the ports to be tested and updates committed.

-- 
-Chuck

PS: I don't have the port version of perl installed on most of my 
FreeBSD systems, but I do have 5.8 installed on everything which is 
running SpamAssassin.  Aside from an issue circa SA-2.6.1_2? or so 
where the Subject: header rewriting stopped working until the port was 
upgraded again (I think someone else mentioned this, too), SA+perl-5.8 
has been working well.  YMMV.