Status of perl 5.10

[B. Estrade]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:07:51AM +0000, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Can someone give us an update on what is the status of preparation for 
> importing perl 5.10?  Who is working on it; what are the remaining 
> obstacles; what can we do in future to avoid the delays?
> 
> Without pointing fingers at individuals, it has become quite a disgrace 
> to us as a project that we still do not have this in the ports tree 
> after more than a year, and we'd like to determine how we can fix this ASAP.

It looks like 5.8 was recently updated to 5.8.9. As a big time Perl
user and list lurker, I can say that in general there seem to be very
few people clamoring for 5.10. I'm not saying that it shouldn't be
available, but since it is meant to be more of a path to Perl 6 rather
than a maintenance release of the current Perl standard version (i.e.,
5.8), I don't think it is quite the disgrace you make it out to be.

Parrot is also not /that/ out of date, though the latest current
release is 0.9.0 where as the one in Ports is 0.8.2. I regularly smoke
test Parrot on FreeBSD 7 using the head of their repo, and everything
usually works out of the box anyway.

Something important to actually be following is the continued progress
of Perl6 (Raduko) and the current efforts that are underway to move it
from parrot/languages to its own repo trunk.

With all of that said, and since I am pretty aware of the state of
Perl and its ilk at any given point in time, I'd be happy to assist
whomever looks over Perl and/or Parrot as long as some handholding and
patience is abundant in the beginning.

Cheers,
Brett

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kris, for portmgr
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