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On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 06:04:14PM +0100, Alberto Sim?es wrote: > 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. Personally I feel that the label 'testing release' is a misnomer. Yes, we got bit by 5.8.0, but this release of perl5 has certainly been put through the grinder and found to be good: - From all the people who smoke test perl; - From the sterling efforts of CPAN Testers such as Andreas, who smoked all of CPAN against what was blead at the time (5.9.x) This should have shaken most of the big bugs out of the tree. As an aside, where is the 5.10 branch code? I can see the 5.8 and blead on http://dev.perl.org/perl5/source.html, but the 5.10 branch isn't mentioned. I guess it is rsync://public.activestate.com/perl-5.10.x/, maybe, but who likes to guess. > - we release 5.10.1 some time after 5.10.0 although not with major bug > fixes I favour this one. Most of the CPAN Testers are testing against 5.10.0 now. If there was some party stopper it would have appeared by now. > 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. Yeah and the FreeBSD people did something similar when they shipped FreeBSD-7.0 three months after perl-5.10.0 was released. Another aside, I have recently uninstalled and installed from stratch perl on a Slackware 10.0 system because of a filesystem corruption problem. The perl-5.8.8 install was seriously screwed after the fsck so I decided to download, compile and install perl-5.10.0. This is on a production server and no problems so far. >:) Cheers, -- Chris Williams aka BinGOs PGP ID 0x4658671F http://www.gumbynet.org.uk ==========================Thread Previous | Thread Next