Re: [HACKERS] perl/perl5

> If you ask a perl4 question on the comp.lang.perl, well, just lets say you
> won't be "helped" much. The offical perl position is the perl4 is an
> obsolete nightmare that they are all trying to forget as rapidly as possible
> and that perl5 is the bright shiny present and future. That is, perl4
> is not supported anymore, please upgrade etc...
>
> So, given that it is pretty darn easy to get perl5 these days, it has been
> out for a few years with good results, is very compatible with perl4 anyhow,
> and really is better for a number of reasons, I see no reason to continue
> to support perl4.
>
> Lets just do it. If for some obsolete platforms like SCO or suchlike this
> means that they will have to download perl5 and pgsql, so be it. The DB
> support is so much better it will be doing them a favor anyway...

OK, I will leave our code alone.  Our Makefile.PL requires perl5, and
BSD/OS has perl as pel5, so if other people had problems doing make of
interfaces/perl5, I was going to add code to look for perl5 first, and
use perl only if a perl5 binary did not exist, but if no one else has
this problem, it is not worth changing it.

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