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Agreed, it's a huge problem (Score:1)
There was just a thread about this on the freebsd-user list:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-December/189389.html [freebsd.org]
I'm a longtime FreeBSD user and promoter, but it really blows me away that getting 5.10 into Ports wasn't done ages ago, that it isn't a really big priority. This state of affairs does not reflect well on the OS.
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I read that thread earlier today. My favorite post is the one which suggests that it's somehow a failing of Perl that no one has made it work on FreeBSD, as if platform porters magically appeared out of sugarplum dreams, and if p5p were a mystical fairyland which eats garbage and excretes beautiful packages for every platform and operating system anyone might possibly want.
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Yeah, I saw that lame a** excuse as well.
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Their big problem is that they are scared to upgrade because they are afraid everything will break. Which suggests to me that they could benefit from some unit tests. :-)
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Well, from reading a bunch of threads it seems to me that they have pretty much removed the problem that upgrading Perl caused. The lingering fear is there. "Oh, we missed that!"