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On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 02:52:29PM +1100, Michael G Schwern wrote: > I'm cutting 6.57_07 now. I'd meant to do it a few days ago but had some minor > release issues to clear up. It's on its way to CPAN. Consider it a release > candidate for 6.58. > > There's unfortunately been a lot of change between 6.57_06 and 6.57_07 related > to the meta file generation and that's going to require a lot of testing. It > could be pulled out and held over until after 6.58 if it proves very troublesome. > > Jesse said Perl is in code freeze, but there's still a few weeks left before > he's going to cut RC0. If we know this issue exists it seems bureaucratic not > to take care of it now and actually release with 6.58. Perl's RCs can act as > MakeMaker's. I'm very, very uncomfortable replacing MakeMaker with a new, untested version after code freeze. That's the point of a code freeze. It's unfortunate that MakeMaker didn't get updated and syncced before the freeze, but it didn't. If there are specific catastrophic failures in the version of MakeMaker we're shipping that fit the definition of things that would get updated in a maint release, let's talk about them. I'm happy to buy the beer. Best, JesseThread Previous | Thread Next