On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 04:44:37PM +0100, Simon Wilcox wrote:
> 
> It seems that 5.8.1 has been released:
> 
> http://search.cpan.org/~jhi/perl-5.8.1/
> 
> <microsoft>
> 
> UPGRADE UPGRADE UPGRADE !!!

but first

Read perldelta
  http://search.cpan.org/~jhi/perl-5.8.1/pod/perldelta.pod
Read perldelta 
  http://search.cpan.org/~jhi/perl-5.8.1/pod/perldelta.pod#Incompatible_Changes
Read perldelta 
  http://search.cpan.org/~jhi/perl-5.8.1/pod/perldelta.pod#Hash_Randomisation

> </microsoft>

mmm. Seems that perl5.8.1 fails to properly implement the <microsoft> tags
because it sets out to list all user visible changes.

Although older versions of CPAN.pm did seem to like to do the automatic
online upgrade game :-(

Nicholas Clark

PS We intend to take Jarkko to the whisky shop and buy things for him when
   he's over next week.

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