The cygwin perl packages perl and perl_manpages have been updated in the experimental branch to 5.10.0-1. Click on [Exp]
Several libraries will follow soon. When all libraries have been updated we can switch from Experimental to Current.
perl-5.10.0 cygwin notes: This release is binary incompatible with the previous 5.8 releases, but compatible to all future 5.10.x releases. That's why we named the main perl DLL /bin/cygperl5_10.dll and not cygperl5_10_0.dll. The requirements for the special perl link driver ld2 and perlld had been removed. Cygwin mount point information is now accessible, esp. text/binary detection. Some modules have been added to vendor_perl, but most of the old vendor modules moved to CORE. Included are Bundle::CPAN, CPAN::Reporter, XML::LibXML and several Test modules. Note: Installed modules (e.g. via CPAN) in site_perl have higher precedence than vendor_perl modules. So you can easily update these. See http://www.perl.org/ ChangeLog: http://perldoc.perl.org/perldelta.html Cygwin README: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlcygwin.html Vendor patches: * CYG04 - major.version cygperl5_10.dll and not cygperl5_10_x.dll * CYG11 - no-bs Empty .bs files are not generated anymore Update recommendations: ----------------------- Since 5.10 is not installed in parallel to 5.8 (it is possible, but not with this package), all your old 5.8 modules will need to be reinstalled for 5.10. Your old 5.8 modules are not deleted, just not accessible to 5.10. Non-binary packages can be used by adding /usr/lib/perl5/site_lib/5.8 to your @INC, but the below procedure is recommended to get the latest version for each installed package. This will not harm most of your previous 5.8 modules in case you want to switch back to 5.8, just the /bin scripts might get overwritten. BEFORE INSTALLATION of 5.10 ! # get the list of installed 5.8 modules $ perl -MExtUtils::Installed \ -e'print join("\n", new ExtUtils::Installed->modules)' > module.list AFTER INSTALLATION of 5.10 ! # install all previous modules for 5.10 $ cpan `cat module.list` Detailed NEWS from README ------------------------- 5.10.0-1 - Configure -de -Dmksymlinks -Duse64bitint -Dusethreads -Uusemymalloc \ -Doptimize='-O3' -Dman3ext='3pm' -Dusesitecustomize (unchanged from 5.8) - cygwin /bin g+w incompatible with TAINT (-T) The default directory permissions for /bin drwxrwxr-x is incompatible with perl tainting. chmod g-w /bin to allow perl -T scripts to run without warnings. - included vendor_perl packages Rationale: Same local vendor_perl packages included as in 5.8.7, plus some of the new CPAN packages which went to core with 5.9.5, Bundle::CPAN, CPAN::Reporter, Module::Build for a full CPAN bootstrap, and the new patched libXML packages, and some almost-core dependencies: Pod-Escapes-1.04 Pod-Simple-3.05 Test-Pod-1.26 Devel-Symdump-2.08 Pod-Coverage-0.19 Test-Pod-Coverage-1.08 Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.008 IO-Compress-Bzip2-2.008 Compress-Bzip2-2.09 IO-String-1.08 Archive-Zip-1.23 Math-BigInt-FastCalc-0.15 Term-ReadLine-Perl-1.0302 Term-ReadLine-Gnu-1.16 TermReadKey-2.30 XML-NamespaceSupport-1.09 XML-SAX-0.16 XML-LibXML-Common-0.13 XML-LibXML-1.65 XML-Parser-2.36 Proc-ProcessTable-0.41 YAML-0.66 Config-Tiny-2.12 File-Copy-Recursive-0.35 IPC-Run3-0.039 Probe-Perl-0.01 Tee-0.13 IO-CaptureOutput-1.06 File-pushd-1.00 File-HomeDir-0.67 Digest-SHA-5.45 Module-Signature-0.55 URI-1.35 HTML-Tagset-3.10 HTML-Parser-3.56 libwww-perl-5.808 CPAN-1.9205 Test-Reporter-1.38 CPAN-Reporter-1.0601 Net-Telnet-3.03 Module-ScanDeps-0.81 PAR-Dist-0.25 B-Generate-1.11 PadWalker-1.5 Alias-2.32 Thanks to Jerry D. Hedden and Jan Dubois. ======================================================================== To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
