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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-06-08 20:45:25 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-06-08 20:45:25 +0000
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downloadperl-b261b246a56763b406fdb558b21fc735cdce05d8.tar.gz
Mention the FreeBSD Perl policy change.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17116
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@@ -30,6 +30,14 @@ result of reading this symlink is can be wrong in certain circumstances
In these cases perl will fall back to the old behaviour of using C's
argv[0] value for C<$^X>.
+=head2 Perl will no more be part of "base FreeBSD"
+
+Not as bad as it sounds--what is means is that Perl will no more be
+part of the B<kernel build system> of FreeBSD. Perl will still very
+probably be part of the "default install", and in any case the latest
+version will be in the ports system. The first FreeBSD version this
+change will affect is 5.0, all 4.n versions will keep the status quo.
+
=head1 AUTHOR
Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>, collating wisdom supplied by Slaven Rezic