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On 12/21/2017 02:29 PM, James E Keenan wrote: > On 12/20/2017 06:06 PM, chris@bingosnet.co.uk wrote: >> >> Death looked at the sacks. >> >> It was a strange but demonstrable fact that the sacks of >> toys carried by the Hogfather, no matter what they >> really contained, always appeared to have sticking out >> of the top a teddy bear, a toy soldier in the kind of >> colorful uniform that would stand out in a disco, a >> drum and a red-and-white candy cane. The actual >> contents always turned out to be something a bit >> garish and costing $5.99. >> >> Death had investigated one or two. There had been a >> Real Agatean Ninja, for example, with Fearsome >> Death Grip, and a Captain Carrot One-Man Night >> Watch with a complete wardrobe of toy weapons, each >> of which cost as much as the original wooden doll in >> the first place. >> >> Mind you, the stuff for the girls was just as >> depressing. It seemed to be nearly all horses. Most of >> them were grinning. Horses, Death felt, shouldn't grin. >> >> Any horse that was grinning was planning something. >> >> -- "Hogfather" - Terry Pratchett >> >> We are festively mirthful to announce version 27.7, >> the 8th development release of version 27 of Perl 5. >> >> You will soon be able to download Perl 5.27.7 from your >> favorite CPAN mirror or find it at: >> >> https://metacpan.org/release/BINGOS/perl-5.27.7/ >> > > Is there some problem with the CPAN mirroring system? > > As of the time of this message -- 13-1/2 hours from the announcement > -- the tarballs and md5.txt, etc. files have yet to appear at, e.g., > ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/src/5.0/ . I don't know how long it took to sync, but they are available now.Thread Previous | Thread Next