perl 5.8.6

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Reini Urban wrote:

> No need to hurry, Gerrit :)
>   http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.6/pod/perl586delta.pod
>   This arrived yesterday.
> 
> Just wanted to know a rough timeframe and what you plan to do with the 
> DLL name, so that I can coordinate libwin32 and the Win32::GUI upgrades.
> I want to seperate Win32::GUI from libwin32, and I want to contact Rafael.

I want to change the name to cygperl_5_8.dll.  Timeframe: depends on the
results of the testsuite, if all or most tests are passnig then I think
it can be uploaded the next days.


> We have to bite the bullet with the 5.8.5 dll dependency once.
> Maybe I'll come up up a simplier upgrade solution, changing the dll's 
> binmode: s/cygperl5_8_2.dll/cygperl5_8.dll/g and moving it over.
> Put this into the postinstall script to move all old CPAN libs to the 
> new site_perl?

No, I think it is better to recompile old modules.


> Maybe I'll come to the pending Win32::API problem with the callbacks on 
> gcc also. A simple hack30-like solution should always be possible. Or a 
> fallback to C::Dynalib.
> Win32::OLE didn't compile OOTB, but this is easy. Just forgot where I 
> put the patch.
> And your /usr/include/iodbcunix.h was wrong. Had to patch it to compile 
> Win32::ODBC. Will send it later.

I didn't wrote it;) Please post also upstream if there are changes
needed.

Gerrit
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