Re: perl5.004 for bo

1998-01-10 Thread Martin Schulze
On Sat, Jan 10, 1998 at 04:02:22AM -0600, David Morton wrote: > AS you said, what support? I guess the mistake I made was thinking > that IRC is a vilid means of support. All the answers I got on IRC were > not usable, and mostly along the line of go fix it yourself. Well, usually, > I have n

Re: perl5.004 for bo - last post

1998-01-10 Thread David Morton
Ok, Folks, I will make one concession. My message did come out of the blue to a lot of you. The support I had been seeking was on IRC. For that oversight, I apologize. I still think my language was civil, although firm, and was worded so as to be sure to kindle some action. A flame? A mere

Re: perl5.004 for bo

1998-01-10 Thread David Morton
On 08-Jan-98 Kai Henningsen wrote: > That made me reread that message. Nope, my first impression still holds. > Our customers on the phone are usually not like that. "Hey, your product > is broken, you are idiots for breaking it, I'm going to install the > competitor's product"? No. Don't ge

Re: perl5.004 for bo

1998-01-09 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Morton) wrote on 08.01.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > To the group, let me say: > Those of you who saw my first message as an attack or a flame, what nice Well, it was. > little utpoia of the planet do you come from? sheesh! If that's all > it takes to ruffle your

Re: perl5.004 for bo

1998-01-08 Thread David Morton
On 08-Jan-98 "James A. Treacy" wrote: > I think everyone agrees that there should have been a new package prepared > for bo. > So we made a mistake. I'll never understand why free software gets > held to higher standards than commercial software. If this were a > Microsoft product everyone would j

Re: perl5.004 for bo

1998-01-08 Thread James A . Treacy
David Morton wrote: > On 08-Jan-98 Martin Schulze wrote: > > If all people who have noticed the lack are behaving like you did, no > > wonder why there isn't such a perl update. > > > EXCUSE ME?? Ok, I already said I was not attacking anyone, but stating > that I was upset. Maybe it's not

Re: perl5.004 for bo

1998-01-08 Thread David Morton
On 08-Jan-98 Martin Schulze wrote: > If all people who have noticed the lack are behaving like you did, no > wonder why there isn't such a perl update. EXCUSE ME?? Ok, I already said I was not attacking anyone, but stating that I was upset. Maybe it's not common for ppl to share feelings.

Re: perl5.004 for bo

1998-01-08 Thread Martin Schulze
On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 09:32:20PM -0600, David Morton wrote: > I just wonder how something this big slipped past so many people for this > long. If all people who have noticed the lack are behaving like you did, no wonder why there isn't such a perl update. Regards Joey -- / Marti

Re: perl5.004 for bo

1998-01-08 Thread David Morton
On 07-Jan-98 Martin Schulze wrote: > Please file a bug report against the perl package. I might do that, If I have time... but it really should have been taken care of already... > I the meantime you can try the packages I have compiled for > a much simplier reason: I appreciate the offer, but

Re: perl5.004 for bo

1998-01-07 Thread Scott Hanson
At 8:18 Uhr -0600 07.01.1998, David Morton wrote: >Greetings from Kansas, > >I am quite upset with the fact that no update for perl has >been included in the "stable" release, currently named bo, I think. > >A security bug in suid-perl has been known to exist in 5.003, as you >have noticed on your

Re: perl5.004 for bo

1998-01-07 Thread Martin Schulze
On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 08:18:22AM -0600, David Morton wrote: > I am quite upset with the fact that no update for perl has > been included in the "stable" release, currently named bo, I think. > > A security bug in suid-perl has been known to exist in 5.003, as you > have noticed on your security

perl5.004 for bo

1998-01-07 Thread David Morton
Greetings from Kansas, I am quite upset with the fact that no update for perl has been included in the "stable" release, currently named bo, I think. A security bug in suid-perl has been known to exist in 5.003, as you have noticed on your security page. However, the IRC people told me that 5.00