perl-5.9.5

[Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]

On Wed, June 20, 2007 6:39 pm, Reini Urban wrote:
> 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

Since 5.9.5 is basically a beta 5.10.0, I would actually make it
a test version of a new perl5.10 package (so perl5.10-5.9.5-1).
When 5.10.0 is released, the package would be updated to
perl5.10-5.10.0-1 and move to current.

> I also enabled -DDEBUGGING, esp. for the new regex engine.

Different routines with DEBUGGGING enabled are swapped in
when you do use re "debug", so that shouldn't be necessary.
Note that DEBUGGING on vs. off are not binary-compatible,
so once you pick a state, you're stuck with it unless you
want to make people recompile XS modules they've built.