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Hello, Dave Mitchell wrote: > I've created a snapshot of the maint-5.10 branch: > > good to hear. So far no problems on AIX: AIX 5.3 TL07 32 bit / shared / thread / xlC V9.0 AIX 5.3 TL07 64 bit / shared / thread / xlC V9.0 I will test the RC0 on several AIX versions (with several compilers) and I will update the README.aix accordingly. I'll keep you posted. Bye Rainer > http://www.iabyn.com/tmp/perl-5.10.0-GitLive-maint-5.10-1551-gadd0c32.tar.gz > > This snapshot is actually quite close to what the first release candidate > will be like (RC1), so you might want to think of this as a sort-of RC0. > > The main expected differences between it and RC1 are: > > * it still identifies itself as 5.10.0 (and if you try to install it > as root it will quite happily blow away your OS's 5.10.0 under > /usr/local - you have been warned!) > * there are a bunch of 5.10.0 regressions whose fixes hopefully will > be in RC1 > * there are a few minor dual-life module updates that might still > happen > * any fixes for issues raised by this snapshot > * any fixes for outstanding smoke issues > > But apart from that, the code is mostly frozen now. > > I'd be really keen for this snapshot to get extensive testing. In > particular: > > * this is (as far as I'm aware), the first snapshot of any branch > that's been released since the move to git, and since the revamping > of all the patchlevel.h stuff. As such, it may well have issues with > things like file permissions, whether all the correct files have > been unix2dos'ed etc. (For those of you who aren't aware; a snapshot > like this isn't just a tarred-up copy of a git checkout; instead the > script Porting/makerel constructs a release dir by copying all the > files from the checkout dir then running all sorts of chmods and > unix2dos stuff.) > > * Similarly, there have been changes to the install process: for > example pod/perlapi.pod is now built at install time rather than > coming with the tarball; check that it still gets installed. > > * Binary compatibility. We make the proud claim that releases in the > the maint branch are binary-compatible with each other; ie XS code > built under an earlier perl should work with a later perl. So, > build yourself a 5.10.0, compile all your favourite CPAN and DarkPAN > XS modules using it, then upgrade to this snapshot and see if they > still work. > > * if you have weird platforms or weird modules, then test them! > > I'm estimating that RC1 is about two weeks away, but that will depend very > much on how much needs fixing in the interim. > > Thanks everyone! > > Dave > >Thread Previous | Thread Next