>From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih_at_rpi.edu> >To: "Ryan Newman" <ryannewman47_at_hotmail.com>, rainer_at_ultra-secure.de >CC: current_at_freebsd.org >Subject: Re: perl 5.8.5 >Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 15:12:00 -0400 > >At 6:51 PM +0000 10/6/04, Ryan Newman wrote: >>>From: Rainer Duffner <rainer_at_ultra-secure.de> >>> >>>Is there actually anything that doesn't work with 5.8 but does >>>work with 5.6? >> >>The biggest problem is that 5.8 defaults to unicode support which >>ends up breaking a lot of complex applications. I know that linux >>has shifted from 5.6 to 5.8 and this has caused a lot of people >>problems on the linux platform. > >Here at work we are in the process of upgrading some older Linux >systems to a newer release of Redhat, and we have been nailed by >these unicode-related bugs in perl, particularly with some regexp >patterns. In some cases this has caused a few scripts to fail >in subtle ways, which is to say the script "succeeds" and claims >everything went just fine, but the script didn't actually do what >it was supposed to do, and what it had been doing for the past >few years. In at least some of those cases, I think these are >BUGS in the way perl handles the expression, and not "unavoidable >consequences of Unicode support". That's just my opinion, though. > >I don't know if perl 5.8 on FreeBSD will cause the same issues. >I have the impression that the default for unicode-handling can >be changed on a system-wide basis (at least on Redhat), but I am >not sure of the details. > >Even though I have hit some of these problems, I do think it is a >good idea to make the change to 5.8 as part of FreeBSD 5.3-release. >People should be taking a bit more time to check, cross-check, and >re-check everything they are running if they are upgrading to >5.3-release from 4.x-release. > Having 5.3 default to perl 5.8 will add a lot of delay in several peoples migration from 4.x for sure. _________________________________________________________________ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/Received on Wed Oct 06 2004 - 17:26:08 UTC
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