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Re: maint releases for 5.32 and 5.30?
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From:
Leon Timmermans
Date:
December 18, 2020 02:57
Subject:
Re: maint releases for 5.32 and 5.30?
Message ID:
CAHhgV8gw+4678MHKsevR5CDnCDvh8Cs2xHawZ5D0ndaDVa4DCQ@mail.gmail.com
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 8:34 PM Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 2:14 PM Graham Knop <haarg@haarg.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 8:52 PM Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 11:39 PM Steve Hay via perl5-porters
> > > <perl5-porters@perl.org> wrote:
> > > > We haven't had a .1 maint release anything like that soon after a .0 final release for a long time. Looking back over the last 6 releases, from 5.20.1 to 5.30.1, they have been 4, 6, 8, 4, 5 and 6 months later respectively.
> > > >
> > > > That said, I'm happy to get the wheels in motion for 5.32.1 if there is already demand for it this time.
> > >
> > > Nothing is truly urgent yet, but not being able to build on the
> > > upcoming version of macOS will slowly become a bigger problem (it's
> > > currently in public beta, and expected to be released "this fall").
> > >
> > > Leon
> >
> > macOS Big Sur is out of beta now, so it would be really good to have a
> > stable perl release that builds on it.
> >
> > The compilation issues on Big Sur were fixed in blead with the commits
> > 810090184a3d18a5cfe46b173f88c79c5a4a3093 and
> > 54d41b60822734cf8df543053f7bd270dfded3ed.
>
> It turns out we may be having more Big Sur related issues. One such
> issue may be fixed in MakeMaker already, another one popped up at the
> last minute.
I've been working on some more fixes for Big Sur[1]. I'm pretty sure I
got the DynaLoader issue fixed, and I probably got another MakeMaker
issue fixed as well. Apple really made a mess :-/
Leon
1: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/18407
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