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

[Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>]

Ask Bjoern Hansen writes:
 > 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?

Hrm.  Back then the idea was:

	perl-release-announce:
		perl5-porters
		some.one@some.where.com
		some.another@some.where.else.edu
		...
		
*and* the automaton at PAUSE that alerts about new releases of Perl
(something named appropriately appearing at certain appropriate directories) 
sends message only to the perl-release-announce.

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Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Ask Bjoern Hansen <ask@valueclick.com>

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