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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!gatech!gt-news!redwood.skiles.gatech.edu!coleman From: coleman@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu (Richard Coleman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What version of Perl and ncurses will be in 2.1? Date: 9 Oct 1995 15:54:39 GMT Organization: School of Mathematics, Ga. Tech Lines: 14 Message-ID: <45bgjv$evq@mordred.gatech.edu> References: <4514di$ci5@Apollo.dmacc.cc.ia.us> <JKH.95Oct9041127@time.cdrom.com> Reply-To: coleman@math.gatech.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: redwood.skiles.gatech.edu X-Newsreader: slrn (0.7.8.2) | In article <4514di$ci5@Apollo.dmacc.cc.ia.us> cfr@dmacc.cc.ia.us (Charles F. Randall) writes: | As stated in the subject line, what versions of Perl and ncurses will | be in the FreeBSD 2.1 release? | | 4.036 and 1.8.6, respectively. This seems surprising. Perl 5.001m and ncurses-1.9.4 have been out for some time now. I noticed that several of the commercial Linux distributions are now carrying perl-5.001m, so I would have expected the same with FreeBSD-2.1. Richard Coleman coleman@math.gatech.edu