Another point is to use another name for the DLL in future (e.g. cygperl-58.dll) so there would be no action needed for some package maintainers if perl is upgraded from say 5.8.6 to 5.8.7.
please stay with cygperl5_8.dll, not another naming scheme. my new pgperl (postgres) will try to use that.
-- Reini Urban http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/