At 03:21 PM 6/20/00 -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>At 01:10 PM 6/20/00 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> >At 11:48 AM 6/20/00 -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> >>It requires OpenVMS AXP 7.2.
> >
> >Mainly because that's what I built it on. Strictly speaking it needs
> 7.2-1 or 7.2 with the mandatory patches, but that's close enough. There's
> nothing in it that actually demands 7.2. (Unlike mod_perl, which needs
> deep directory support to build...)
> >
> >There are almost no changes between base 5.005_03 and this release.
> MakeMaker's been assaulted some . . .
>[snip]
> >I do need to get the patches together reasonably soon, though, and post
> 'em to the list.
>
>Are these things that have already been fixed in 5.6, or do we need to apply
>the changes there as well?
The changes are sort of in. The namespace pollution's much less with 5.6.0
(and I think I fixed it more with the recent patches). The MakeMaker
stuff's not in, though I'll probably get to that soon.
Still have to get the executable name mangling thing done, too.
>Is there any hope that some incarnation of 5.6 including all the pipe stuff
>and other fixes will form the basis of the release version?
Got me. I hope so, but I'm not keeper of the repository. (Which is a good
thing, honestly... :)
Dan
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