LPM: perl 5.6 released

Rich Bowen rbowen at rcbowen.com
Mon Mar 27 18:00:18 CST 2000


Frank Price wrote:
> 
> I'm sure this many of you are aware of this, but perl 5.6 was released
> a few days ago.  Should be on CPAN and most mirrors.  This is the
> update to 5.005.
> 
> Haven't downloaded it yet -- anyone have comments or Cool Things to
> report?

I've been watching P5P for a while, and there are still a lot of bug
reports going by. I expect that I will wait for at least another release
before I put it on anything other than my second machine at work.

For the Windows users, ActiveState has a 5.6 also, but I've not tried
that yet.

Rich
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