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You wouldn't be surprised at it if you knew Slackware 11 choose kernel 2.4, I think. ;) On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Alberto Simões <albie@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt> wrote: > 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 > > -- > Alberto Simões - Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho > Campus de Gualtar - 4710-057 Braga - Portugal >Thread Previous | Thread Next