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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!spcuna!ritz!bet From: bet@ritz.mordor.com (Bennett Todd) Subject: Re: What version of Perl and ncurses will be in 2.1? References: <4514di$ci5@Apollo.dmacc.cc.ia.us> <JKH.95Oct9041127@time.cdrom.com> <45bgjv$evq@mordred.gatech.edu> Organization: Mordor International BBS - Jersey City, NJ Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 21:10:47 GMT Message-ID: <DG79I0.GMG@ritz.mordor.com> Lines: 22 In article <45bgjv$evq@mordred.gatech.edu>, Richard Coleman <coleman@math.gatech.edu> wrote: >| 4.036 and 1.8.6, respectively. > >This seems surprising. Perl 5.001m and ncurses-1.9.4 have been out for >some time now. It's not surprising if there aren't any perl programmers working in the FreeBSD project; last I heard, they'd sworn that 4.036 was the last version of perl ever, and were never gonna upgrade --- which isn't all that unexpected if, say, they never use perl for anything and don't know anything about it. Happily, you can just remove the antique perl they include, and build a current one. 5.001m builds very easily under 2.0.5R; I imagine it won't have too much trouble, and will be quickly adjusted to fix anything they break, for 2.1R. -- -Bennett bet@mordor.com http://www.mordor.com/bet/