[rochester-pm-list] [Fwd: www.perl.com: What's New with 5.6.0?]

Brian Mathis bmathis at directedge.com
Tue Apr 18 20:38:04 CDT 2000



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Subject: www.perl.com: What's New with 5.6.0?
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Hello, perl.com subscribers.

New Perl is Here!

At last, Perl 5.6.0 has been released.  This is the first 
major release of Perl since 5.005 first appeared almost two 
years ago.  The new Perl incorporates many, many enhancements 
and bug fixes.  New features include better Unicode support 
and internet address constants.  Master Wizard Gurusamy 
Sarathy has somehow gotten Perl to emulate Unix's `fork()' 
call on platforms that don't have it, like Windows.  
(Isn't that astounding?)  For the complete announcement, see 

http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2000-03/msg02596.html

This week, www.perl.com carries a feature article by Simon 
Cozens that provides an overview of what's new in 5.6.0.  See
 
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/04/whatsnew.html?wwwrrr_20000418.txt

for Simon's article.

* Conferences Imminent *

The summer conference season is almost upon us; the deadline 
for tutorial submissions at the O'Reilly Perl Conference is 
coming up in a couple of weeks.   Full information about the 
conference is available at 

http://conference.oreilly.com/oscon2000/

Kevin Lenzo continues to quietly organize the second YAPC;
registration should begin any day now.  YAPC, or `Yet Another 
Perl Conference' is a low-cost community-organized Perl 
conference that will be held in Pittsburgh, PA from 21-23 June.  
Last year's YAPC was a tremendous success.  Meanwhile, the 
organizers of the first YAPC Europe have been anything but 
quiet!  Their mailing list is clogged with the final discussion 
about where and when the first European YAPC will be held.  It 
looks as though it will happen this September in London.  For 
more details about YAPC, visit:

http://www.yapc.org/America/      (for Pittsburgh)
http://www.yapc.org/Europe/       (for London)

* Haiku Contest in Progress *

At last year's Open Source Conferences, Perl luminary Damian 
Conway ran a haiku contest, with prizes generously supplied 
by O'Reilly.  Damian started this year's contest early, and is 
accepting submissions now, and up until the winners are finally 
announced at this year's conference in Monterey.  For details, see

http://history.perl.org/CHI/

* Changes on p5p *

Gurusamy Sarathy, the lead pumpking, was dismayed at how many 
good people in the past few years have been driven away from 
the p5p mailing list because of long, tedious flame wars, and 
proposed moderating the list.  He suggested that a panel of 
referees be selected, who would have the power to moderate 
threads or individual posters if it became necessary.  Amazingly, 
this suggestion has not yet provoked a long, tedious flame 
war---people seem to think it is a good idea.

* New XML Developments *

The last few weeks have seen an unusual number of new Perl 
module releases, including new versions of CGI.pm (now at 
version 2.66) and PDL (now at 2.005.)  Of particular note is 
the 2.28 release of XML::Parser.  Author Clark Cooper says that 
this will likely be the last release of the 2.00 series of the 
module, and he is going to start work on a 3.00 series that is 
substantially different.  More details are available at

http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/sgmlnew.html

Look under `March 31'.

Also, XML.com has an article by Michael Rodriguez about XML 
processing in Perl that provides an overview of the most important 
modules and what they do.  If you've wanted to get started but 
weren't sure where to start, start here:

http://www.xml.com/pub/2000/04/05/feature/index.html?wwwrrr_rss


Thank you all.  I will be in touch again at the beginning of May.


Mark Dominus
Managing Editor


* What's New with 5.6.0? *

 
What's New in 5.6.0.
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/04/whatsnew.html?wwwrrr_20000418.txt
After two years in the making, we look at new features of Perl,
including
support for UTF-8 Unicode.


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