which perl?

Alejandro Imass ait at p2ee.org
Thu Sep 23 17:46:23 UTC 2010


On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh at onetel.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Todays ports tree has lang/perl5.10 and lang/perl5.12. A new 8.1-RELEASE
> jail in tinderbox using this ports tree is using perl5.10 by default. Should
> I leave this as is or should I be using 5.12?
>

IMHO 5.10 is new enough! But the great thing about the Perl community
is that it usually respects previous versions not like some other
crazy, irresponsible "communities" such as PHP who can break your code
from 5.2 to 5.3.

> This is for a home desktop.
>
> eco# uname -a
> FreeBSD eco.config 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:55:53
> UTC 2010 root at almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>
>
> thanks
>
> Chris
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