Re: far-off lands, please test pre-5.6 Perl *now*

[Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>]

Alan Burlison writes:
 > Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
 > 
 > > this message is a wake-up call for people who care about Perl in
 > > far-off lands.  The next major Perl release, 5.6, is getting nearer.
 > > We would very much like to have all the ports of Perl in nice
 > > synchrony and in full working order and therefore your testing work
 > > would be much appreciated.
 > 
 > It is well broke.  I tried to install modperl with it, and about 4 of

Alan, you weren't supposed to be reading that... :-)

	I use the perl-release-announce list so seldomly
	that I always forget that p5p is one its subscribers.
	The message was mainly targeted for maintainers
	of Perl who do not subscribe to p5p.

But seriously: thank you for your feedback, Alan.

 > the required XSUB based modules coredumped all over the place.  I logged
 > the bugs to p5p about 1-2 weeks ago.
 > 
 > Alan

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