Update Perl to version 5.10.x [PSARC/2009/315 FastTrack timeout 06/02/2009]

[James Carlson]

I. Szczesniak writes:
> On 5/26/09, Jim Walker <James.Walker at sun.com> wrote:
> >  I disagree. In general, the SFW pkgs are very high quality.
> 
> I disagree. The software is high quality but the integration in SFW is
> very poor.

This is an ARC review.  Can you point out what the _architectural_
issue is that you're trying to discuss here?

Is SFW somehow architecturally inferior?  If so, then I'm not sure
that's this project's problem to solve or that the proposed solution
(forcing yet another giant unmodified and scantily-reviewed open
source wad into ON) is necessarily better.  Perhaps we need to have a
separate project to fix these issues ... whatever they may be.

Is the use in SFW of "./configure" and autoconf-like things the
badness?  If so, then let's discuss that specific issue.  Perhaps
there's some less-dynamic way that could be suggested.

Or is it just that this is open source from outside of Sun and thus
hasn't been through Sun's normal development process?  If so, then get
with the project team and help them improve the quality of the code.
That doesn't have any bearing on the selected consolidation.  (In
fact, it's almost certainly guaranteed to be simpler to achieve
outside of ON, where you're going to be forced into doing things that
diverge from the upstream sources.)

I think you're imagining a level of goodness in ON that doesn't
necessarily exist, particularly for things that are kept actively in
sync with external (upstream) sources.

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