Perl-5.10.0 in FBSD-7.0

Robert Huff roberthuff at rcn.com
Wed Jan 23 09:42:21 PST 2008


Gerard writes:

>  2) Will FreeBSD-7.0 use this as the default Perl version?
>  
>  It seems rather silly to use the older version as the default in
>  FBSD-7.0 since a newer version is available.

	I don't speak for the Release Engineering team, but: almost
certainly not.
	Perl is used by so many things that making the change before a
.0 release is work for no necessary gain.  It's practically a "Kick
Me!" sign.


				Robert Huff



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