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Hi, Folks.
Let me make something clear from the beginning. I am not complaining
with this email. I just want to make people reflect on this subject, and
show my point of view about it. But as my English is not anything I can
be glad of...
Now, on the subject.
Accordingly with http://www.cpan.org/src/README.html, perl 5.10.0 is 4
months and 5 days old, and is considered a 'testing' release. On the
text, it is told that for stable you should use 5.8.8.
I think that this of calling 5.10.0 a testing is something that got from
5.8.0, the worst Perl release ever. We know that happens to have a bad
release on a dot-zero release. But the beta releases, and release
candidates are there to help to stabilize the release.
If we are waiting for 5.10.1 to mark it stable, we have four main options:
- we find some major bug and release a bug-fix release;
- if we do not find any major bug, we wait for some to be found (this
can take a while)
- we release 5.10.1 some time after 5.10.0 although not with major bug
fixes
- or we just give some time of quarantine and then mark 5.10.0 as
stable (this might confuse people).
Now, why I am talking about this: because Slackware 12.1 is being
released soon and I was asking why not to incorporate Perl 5.10. The
answer was that Perl 5.10 is a testing release.
Cheers
ambs
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Alberto Simões - Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho
Campus de Gualtar - 4710-057 Braga - Portugal
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