Re: 5.10.1 is released

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From:

H.Merijn Brand

Date:

August 23, 2009 08:31

Subject:

Re: 5.10.1 is released

Message ID:

20090823173131.6eb8ea9a@pc09.procura.nl

On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:40:50 +0100, Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com>
wrote:

>     'Briefly, sir, I am the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, known as
>     the Permanent Secretary. Woolley here is your Principal Private
>     Secretary. I, too, have a Principal Private Secretary, and he is the
>     Principal Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary. Directly
>     responsible to me are ten Deputy Secretaries, eighty-seven Under
>     Secretaries and two hundred and nineteen Assistant Secretaries.
>     Directly responsible to the Principal Private Secretaries are plain
>     Private Secretaries. The Prime Minister will be appointing two
>     Parliamentary Under-Secretaries and you will be appointing your own
>     Parliamentary Private Secretary.'
> 
>     'Can they all type?' I joked.
> 
>     'None of us can type, Minister,' replied Sir Humphrey smoothly. 'Mrs
>     McKay types - she is your Secretary.'
> 
>     I couldn't tell whether or not he was joking. 'What a pity,' I said.
>     'We could have opened an agency.'
> 
>     Sir Humphrey and Bernard laughed. 'Very droll, sir,' said Sir
>     Humphrey.  'Most amusing, sir,' said Bernard. Were they genuinely
>     amused at my wit, or just being rather patronising? 'I suppose they
>     all say that, do they?' I ventured.
> 
>     Sir Humphrey reassured me on that. 'Certainly not, Minister,' he
>     replied. 'Not quite all.'
> 
> [p14 _The complete Yes Minister // The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister by
> the Right Hon. James Hacker MP._ 1 "Open Government" ]
> 
> Currently it's at
> 
>     http://www.iabyn.com/tmp/perl-5.10.1.tar.bz2
>     https://pause.perl.org/pub/PAUSE/authors/id/D/DA/DAPM/perl-5.10.1.tar.bz2
> 
> But presumably it will be at
> 
>     http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/D/DA/DAPM/perl-5.10.1.tar.bz2

Hurray, Hurray!
perl5 isn't dead!

> once it's had time to propagate to CPAN's mirrors, so don't publicise the
> first two URLs.
> 
> A .gz version also available for the decompressionally challenged.

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