docs/140568: [UPDATE] Outdated Perl info in Developers' Handbook

Denny Lin dennylin93 at cnmc32.hs.ntnu.edu.tw
Sun Nov 15 13:00:05 UTC 2009


>Number:         140568
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [UPDATE] Outdated Perl info in Developers' Handbook
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Nov 15 13:00:03 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Denny Lin
>Release:        FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4 amd64
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD cnmc32.hs.ntnu.edu.tw 7.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Mon Oct 26 19:41:45 CST 2009 root at cnmc32.hs.ntnu.edu.tw:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CNMC32 amd64


	
>Description:
The Perl port (lang/perl5) specified in the Developers' Handbook no longer exists. It should be replaced with lang/perl5.8, the current default version of Perl.
	
>How-To-Repeat:
	
>Fix:
Patch (sed 's/perl5/perl5.8/g').

	

--- developers-handbook-tools-chapter.sgml.patch begins here ---
--- doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/tools/chapter.sgml.orig	2009-11-15 20:45:01.744614861 +0800
+++ doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/tools/chapter.sgml	2009-11-15 20:45:15.176791625 +0800
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@
 	      writing <acronym>CGI</acronym> scripts.</para>
 
 	    <para>Perl is available in the Ports Collection as 
-	      <filename role="package">lang/perl5</filename> for all
+	      <filename role="package">lang/perl5.8</filename> for all
 	      &os; releases, and is installed as <command>/usr/bin/perl</command>
 	      in the base system 4.X releases.</para>
 	  </listitem>
--- developers-handbook-tools-chapter.sgml.patch ends here ---


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