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From:
H.Merijn Brand
Date:
November 4, 2003 01:05
Subject:
Re: 5.8.2 RC2
Message ID:
20031104100519.9AE7.H.M.BRAND@hccnet.nl
On Mon 03 Nov 2003 20:45, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote:
> 	It's fun to charter an accountant
> 	And sail the wide accountan-cy,
> 	To find, explore the funds offshore
> 	And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy.
> 
> 	Accountancy Shanty - Eric Idle/John Du Prez
> 
> I was hoping to avoid release candidate two, but there have been a few
> significant tweaks since RC1. Notably
> 
> 0: Jan Dubois has provided a patch to make threaded 5.8.2 binary compatible
>    with 5.8.0. 5.8.1 accidentally broke binary compatibility with 5.8.0 for
>    certain threaded functions, and we feel that given the choice of
>    compatibility with only one, choosing 5.8.0 is the lesser of two evils.
> 
> 1: Stas Bekman has worked tirelessly to figure out how I broke mod_perl, and
>    we both think that it's all working now.
> 
> 2: Dave Mitchell has fixed several more thread sharing leaks.
> 
> 3: The change to UNIVERSAL has been taken out for now.
> 
> 4: The caching of failure on %INC needs more work, and is out for now
> 
> RC2 actually escaped to CPAN this morning, so it's probably quite
> widespread by now:
> 
>   http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/N/NW/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.2-RC2.tar.bz2

The uploaded file

    dor-5.8.2-rc2.diff

has entered CPAN as

  file: $CPAN/authors/id/H/HM/HMBRAND/dor-5.8.2-rc2.diff
  size: 381487 bytes
   md5: dab5601a5a61a0bb7f3d9fa4022dbd65


> (or tar.gz if you really want a 25% larger download.)
> 
> Unless any show stoppers are reported within the next 48 hours I will weigh
> the anchor, and 5.8.2 will be on her way.
> 
> And nothing The Very Big Corporation of America can do will stop us. :-)
> 
> Nicholas Clark

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