Perl

[Doug Barton]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, jeff wrote:

> With numerous ports now requiring perl 5.6 or newer will perl be a newer
> version in the base of 4.9?

No. That would violate what we refer to as The Principle of Least
Astonishment, or POLA for short. The whole definition of -stable is that
some things remain the same for the life of the branch. To change it now
would be breaking faith with the people who depend on it staying the
same.

As someone else pointed out, there are plenty of options for people who
need newer perl on their -stable systems.

Hope this helps,

Doug

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