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David Grove <pete@petes-place.com> writes: >> Okay - you mentioned Tk twice now. >> What exactly is your gripe about Tk and perl5.6.0 ? > >No gripes, Nick. Your work is excellent and I applaud you, period. You're >one of the most active and effective members in this forum and have done >tremendous work for the _entire_ perl community, Win32 included. Blush! > >(Side note, you said a while back that you were thinking of making a >MinGWin32 (GCC-Win) makefile for perl. Did that come about? If not I'll grab >that task if you're willing to give it - I'd prefer that CM for one make its >own Perl and not depend on a $1500 compiler, and that people, given a short >tutorial, not have to depend on AS's handouts.) Mingw32 has been supported since 5.005 - though I am planning to take another look with latest Mingw32 (gcc-2.95.2). > >Actually what I personally am talking about is the nv vs PL_nv set of bugs. Tk has supposed to have been immune to those for a while. If you have a build which shows them I am interested in fixing them. >I'm afraid I don't know enough of perlguts to know what's going on there. It >seems to be the same problem present in the other modules that failed on me. >Frankly, I'm not aware of any other bugs in Tk->5.6. > No rug was pulled from Tk - Tk is excessively familiar with perl's guts >> and despite that extemely minimal changes were required. > >Given an adequate beta period, would these changes/fixes have been made >before 5.6's release? With the exception of the ->isa bug they were made before 5.6's release. The ->isa bug fix was made before 5.6.0 was announced but after it reached CPAN. -- Nick Ing-SimmonsThread Previous | Thread Next