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On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 05:48:32PM +0100, Richard Clamp wrote: > We're living in a modern age, it's just FreeBSD 4.x users that aren't > and not having lexical filehandles really makes be hate 5.005_03. > > Oldest version of perl we're shooting to be compatible with is now > 5.6.1. $ uname -a FreeBSD plum.flirble.org 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #0: Sun Mar 23 18:33:06 GMT 2003 scot@xxxx.xxxxxxx.xxx:/usr/src/sys/compile/PLUM i386 $ /usr/bin/perl -v This is perl, v5.6.1 built for i386-freebsd I think it's only die-hard FreeBSD users who are on 5.005_03 And although my own FreeBSD (currently turned off) has /usr/bin/perl as 5.005_03, it does have some more modern perls installed in /usr/local/bin Anyone on FreeBSD 4.0 is free to install 5.8.1 in /usr/local Nicholas Clark
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