[HEADS-UP] switching default Perl to 5.22

[Philip M. Gollucci]

Hi,

I'm actually a PMC and committer upstream for mod_perl.  I've just been
inactive there for "a while".  If someone has a fix I can facilitate it.
I'll attempt to look at it this week........

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Mathieu Arnold <mat at freebsd.org> wrote:

> +--On 28 août 2015 17:34:49 +0200 Mark Martinec
> <Mark.Martinec+freebsd at ijs.si> wrote:
> | 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.
>
> Oh, yes, Perl 5.20 will still be until 2018-12-31, as will 5.18 until
> 2017-12-31 and 5.16 until 2016-12-31 :-)
>
> But I'm talking about switching the default, it means people using packages
> will not have mod_perl. (And you really can't use a non default Perl, and
> binary packages for the rest.)
>
> --
> Mathieu Arnold




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