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From: mfiresto@mindspring.com
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Subject: FreeBSd is distributed with perl 4
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>Number:         5700
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       FreeBSd is distributed with perl 4
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Feb 10 07:30:01 PST 1998
>Closed-Date:    Fri Mar 13 09:08:51 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:  Fri Mar 13 09:12:09 PST 1998
>Originator:     Michael Firestone
>Release:        2.2.5-Stable and 3.0-Current
>Organization:
>Environment:
N/A
>Description:
Perl4 is no longer supported - according to the recognized experts, Perl4
is a "dead flea-bitten camel carcass" - but FreeBSd is still using it as the
default installed option.

Perl5 should be the default, distributed perl version.  I understand there are
a number of scripts used by FreeBSD that are Perl4 scripts and would need to
be ported to perl5 and varified safe.  Give me the list of these scripts and
I will be do it.

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
As I mentioned above, port the important scripts to perl5 and make it the
default version used for FreeBSD, possibly keeping the perl4 binaries 
available for download for those sites that insist on beating dead camels
into the ground....

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: hoek 
State-Changed-When: Fri Mar 13 09:08:51 PST 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  
I like Perl 4.  However, your offer to veryify all FreeBSd system perl4 
scripts as working under perl5 is admirable.  Unfortunately, the real 
work in getting Perl 5 on FreeBSD is involved in cutting it up and suiting 
it to our source tree.  If you are still interested, send mail saying such 
to hackers@FreeBSD.ORG.  You will be granted immediate attention, since 
there are many who would like someone to do this work for them. 
>Unformatted:
