From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 20:45:25 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Mention the FreeBSD Perl policy change. X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b261b246a56763b406fdb558b21fc735cdce05d8;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Mention the FreeBSD Perl policy change. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17116 --- diff --git a/README.freebsd b/README.freebsd index e147c66..36d6bf1 100644 --- a/README.freebsd +++ b/README.freebsd @@ -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 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 , collating wisdom supplied by Slaven Rezic