1.5.x goes current on 2003-08-23?

[Charles Wilson]

Nicholas Wourms wrote:

> Perl is required for many operations, and (as I'm sure Chuck will agree) 
> having to rebase a *critical* core application *just* to get it work is 
> unacceptable.  

Hey, don't drag me into this.  Rebase is (currently) a necessary evil 
for python and maybe perl, but I gave up maintaining perl a LONG time 
ago and I don't intend to stick my nose into it now.  It's Gerritt's 
baby, and I trust him to do whatever is necessary to make stuff work. 
But, he's asked for help -- so help, dammit, don't carp.

There's no reason that one can't continue using the current perl 5.8.0-1 
for a while after 1.5.1 goes gold.  (Perl won't be able to manipulate 
big files or big uid's -- but it can't handle 'em now, so what's the 
diff?)  I reckon Gerritt will keep perl in 'test' mode until he's happy 
with it, and not switch it over to 'current' a moment earlier.

--
Chuck



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