[pm-h] Fw: [pm_groups] 5.8.9 RC1 is out, please test your code with it!

G. Wade Johnson gwadej at anomaly.org
Wed Nov 12 04:49:01 PST 2008



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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:24:06 +0200
From: "Gabor Szabo" <szabgab at gmail.com>
To: "PM Groups" <pm_groups at pm.org>
Subject: [pm_groups] 5.8.9 RC1 is out, please test your code with it!


I think this, or a better written version of this should be distributed
via your local Perl Mongers.
thanks
  Gabor

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Gabor Szabo <szabgab at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:21 AM
Subject: 5.8.9 RC1 is out, please test your code with it!
To: Perl in Israel <perl at perl.org.il>, Jerusalem Perl Mongers
<jerusalem at perl.org.il>


I know about several companies that cannot move from 5.6 to 5.8 or to
5.10 as their code does not run there.
Some of them complain how horrible it is that perl has changed and
something was removed from it that is causing them the problem.

I think the main problem is that these companies while rely on Perl
they don't exercise their right the fact Perl is Open Source gives them.

If Perl is important for them the can and should check if some change
in perl is going to cause them trouble. The best would be of course to
follow the development of the interpreter but if they cannot do that at
least they should check if the Release Candidates meet their needs.

So If you are using perl 5.8.x, you should go ahead, download RC1 of
5.8.9 and check if your code works on it.

See the announcement of Nick Clark:
http://use.perl.org/~nicholas/journal/37858

Gabor

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