Warren, > How soon is perl-5.8.7 coming? Freeze for test3 is coming April 27th, > so if we want perl-5.8.7 in we need upgrade it, test and fix all > dependencies and prove that it doesn't cause widespread problems by the > 26th. I don't think perl 5.8.7 will be released in time. In February Nicholas Clark (the current perl 5.8 pumpkin manager) announced the release was imminent (http://www.mail-archive.com/perl5-porters@xxxxxxxx/msg84936.html). Last month (2005-03-31) I send him an email requesting furthert information and he replied that he expected to release it in the next three weeks and until now I haven't seen no new developments (emails, snapshots, RCs) in the perl5-porters mailing list. > It is highly unlikely we will be able to upgrade to perl-5.8.7 after > test3 unless the change is really only minor. How large of a difference > is it between 5.8.6 and 5.8.7? It maintains binary compat right? Any > other potential issues? Perl 5.8.7 shouldn't have new features, only bug corrections and core modules updates (eg: Time::HiRes, CGI, ...). It is expected to maintain binary compat (all major perl versions do that - 5.6 and 5.8; perl 5.8.1 being the exception). Regards, jpo -- José Pedro Oliveira * mailto: jpo@xxxxxxxxxxxx * http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/~jpo * * gpg fingerprint = F9B6 8D87 859D 1C94 48F0 84C0 9749 9EB5 91BD 851B *
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