[OT] Perl 5.8.9 RC1 is out

[Dave Hodgkinson]

On 14 Nov 2008, at 19:01, Steve Purkis wrote:

> On Nov 13, 2008, at 16:03, Léon Brocard wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> Compiles & tests ok for me on my PPC mac, OS 10.4, gcc v4.0.1.
>
> spurkis at lamb:~/dev/perl-5.8.9-RC1 $ uname -a
> Darwin lamb.local 8.11.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.0: Wed Oct 10  
> 18:26:00 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.24.17~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh  
> powerpc
>
> Haven't had time to run much with it yet...


Install the LWP and CPAN bundles....

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