perl-5.9.5

Reini Urban rurban@x-ray.at
Thu Jun 21 01:39:00 GMT 2007


I almost have that ready, I just wait for some of my cygwin patches 
upstream.

With current blead (5.9.5) I get now the same number of failing tests as 
with 5.8
../lib/Net/Ping/t/500_ping_icmp.t                2    1  50.00%  2
being the only leftover.

How should we name it so that users can experiment with that? 
Side-by-side to perl-5.8.8

I would suggest perl5.9-5.9.5-1.
And when perl5.10 comes out as perl-5.10-1, the development version can 
switch to perl5.11-5.11-1.
I couldn't find similar cases ion any distro.
They just allow perl-5.9.4 besides perl-5.8.8.

perl-devel seems to be misleading, maybe perl-exp or perl-experimental.

I also enabled -DDEBUGGING, esp. for the new regex engine.
I don't think people want 5.9 to use for the enhanced speed, mainly to 
test the new perl6 and regex features for the upcoming 5.10.

For 5.9 I also added libxml to vendor, not only expat.
And I pulled in all CPAN and CPAN::Reporter dependencies.
Originally I wanted to get the vendor libs smaller, but a current CPAN 
is really important, and CPAN::Reporter also.
-- 
Reini



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