[HEADS-UP] switching default Perl to 5.22

Mark Martinec Mark.Martinec+freebsd at ijs.si
Fri Aug 28 15:34:56 UTC 2015


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.

   Mark


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