[OT] Perl 5.8.9 RC1 is out

Léon Brocard acme at astray.com
Thu Nov 13 16:03:53 GMT 2008


2008/11/11 Nicholas Clark <nick at ccl4.org>:

> ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/N/NW/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.9-RC1.tar.bz2
> no-one has tested it on *your* work code. And if you don't, and there are
> regressions in RC1 that hurt your code, but you don't find out until after
> 5.8.9 is released, because you didn't test it now, then

How is 5.8.9 RC1 working out for everyone? It compiles and passes
tests on all the different computers and virtual machines I have
access to and I've run a substantial amount of CPAN on it without any
problems so far. How about you?

Leon


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