Re: far-off lands, please test pre-5.6 Perl *now*

[Ask Bjoern Hansen <ask@valueclick.com>]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:

>  > > this message is a wake-up call for people who care about Perl in
>  > > far-off lands.  The next major Perl release, 5.6, is getting nearer.
>  > > We would very much like to have all the ports of Perl in nice
>  > > synchrony and in full working order and therefore your testing work
>  > > would be much appreciated.
>  > 
>  > It is well broke.  I tried to install modperl with it, and about 4 of
> 
> Alan, you weren't supposed to be reading that... :-)
> 
> 	I use the perl-release-announce list so seldomly
> 	that I always forget that p5p is one its subscribers.
> 	The message was mainly targeted for maintainers
> 	of Perl who do not subscribe to p5p.

Actually it's not. Or it is, but to prevent loops and stuff the lists
doesn't accept posts posted from other mailinglists. Should I get that
changed?
 
> But seriously: thank you for your feedback, Alan.
> 
>  > the required XSUB based modules coredumped all over the place.  I logged
>  > the bugs to p5p about 1-2 weeks ago.

Alan, remember that mod_perl 1.21 doesn't work with perl's 5.5.52+.

(I haven't tried with the latest though)


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