cygwin setup keeps downgrading perl 5.8 -> 5.6
Gerrit P. Haase
gp@familiehaase.de
Sun Mar 16 11:39:00 GMT 2003
Hallo Ashley,
Am Samstag, 15. März 2003 um 10:05 schriebst du:
> NOTE: I am not on the list. Please reply directly.
> Why does cygwin setup want to downgrade perl from 5.8 to 5.6? Is this
> intentional or accidental? The following excerpt from
> http://archive.progeny.com/cygwin/setup.ini
> shows 5.8 is listed under a [test] section.
[...]
> I couldn't find the web page that explained what [test] means. With
> this setup you have to catch cygwin each time you run setup to upgrade
> other packages, otherwse it will do the downgrade by default. (i.e you
> have to select "Keep" for perl).
I'm busy right now getting a "final" version of perl-5.8 out now.
It is marked with "Test", because I wanted some feedback at first
before releasing it as a stable version.
My workaround for setup.exe's behaviour is to install perl-5.8
manually over the existing 5.6.1 installation. Just extract the
binary package from the root path.
Gerrit
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