Greetings,
It would appear that perl 5.6.1 is due to be released within the
month of April (I think this year too). Because of that it would
be helpful if as many people as possible had an opportunity to try out the
release candidate available from:
http://public.ActiveState.com/gsar/foolperl-5.6.1.tar.gz
or
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/fool/foolperl-5.6.1.tar.gz
and let us know about trouble that you encounter with it.
Please note that that kit is a trial release and not the official
5.6.1 release. As such I do not recommend installing it over or in place
of a production perl installation. If you want to try installing it on
your system for test purposes and playing with modules then try specifying
an out of the way prefix. For example, let's say that you had at least
30MB of space available in /tmp then you could run:
mkdir -p /tmp/test_perl_install/bin
mkdir -p /tmp/test_perl_install/lib
mkdir -p /tmp/test_perl_install/man/man1
mkdir -p /tmp/test_perl_install/man/man3
sh Configure -Dprefix=/tmp/test_perl_install
if you want to test dynamic loading then be sure to also add -Dusedl
to the `sh Configure` command line. When testing be prepared to have
/tmp/test_perl_install/bin in your $PATH and if using dynamic loading be
prepared to have the proper directoy down in /tmp/test_perl_install/lib...
in your $LIBPATH.
Thank you.
Peter Prymmer
