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Postings from March 2007
Hi all! I believe it's high time to release a new maintenance release of the perl-5.8.x branch. There are several bugs that I'm aware of in perl-5.8.x. The one that most bothers me is: http://use.perl.org/~Shlomi+Fish/journal/31605 Which was introduced in perl-5.8.8 and did not exist in perl-5.8.7. It makes debugging many programs including most Test::More-based test scripts very painful. Another bug that I'm aware of is: http://use.perl.org/~Shlomi+Fish/journal/31775 It existed in the entire perl-5.8.x branch and may have some security implications. However, I'm sure there are many other bugs that bother people. Last time I checked, many major CPAN modules were broken with bleadperl, so I think we should make another perl-5.8.x while people are waiting. "Release early, release often." ;-) Oh, and let me know if there's anything I could be of help in this regard. Regards, Shlomi Fish --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish shlomif@iglu.org.il Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ Chuck Norris wrote a complete Perl 6 implementation in a day but then destroyed all evidence with his bare hands, so no one will know his secrets.Thread Next