[illumos-Developer] webrev: 377 removal of perl 5.8.4

Garrett D'Amore garrett at nexenta.com
Tue Nov 2 08:22:30 PDT 2010


The thing is, perl 5.8.4 won't be required for this.  We're getting rid
of perl 5.8.4.  We *still* have a dependency on perl 5.10.0, and this
change doesn't affect that.

This is a *big* improvement in the right direction.

	- Garrett

On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 15:58 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> John Sonnenschein <johnsonnenschein at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Delivery of Perl is a distribution level problem. This webrev removes it from O/N.
> >
> > http://tamara.tcx.org.uk/~johns/
> >
> > I'd remove the modules as well, but intrd(1M) and projects(5) depend on them. If someone's looking for something to do, those are nice targets
> 
> As long as there is no way to define a clean way to create a modular ON, I am 
> against removing things that are needed for compilation.
> 
> Jörg
> 




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