jdavidb writes "Jarkko has released perl 5.8.1, and it has propagated to CPAN. Thanks for all the hard work! Changes include randomizing hash orders for security (they were never supposed to be reproduceable, anyway), module updates, and Unicode updates. Most important to me, in my present environment, is that 5.8.1 compiles cleanly for Cygwin out of the box!"
Re:5.8.1
jand on 2003-09-27T15:37:04
If you are talking about the ActivePerl release of Perl 5.8.1, then no, this will have no effect.I already integrated all 5.8.1 changes into the ActivePerl tree. There is some more work to be done for the ActivePerl 807 build:
- applying accumulated patches for the libwin32 modules
- some installer and PPM changes/fixes
- getting the ActiveState::Rx module in sync with 5.8.1
ActivePerl build 807 should be released in the second half of October (famous last words alert!).
All that being said, I still want to encourage you to compile it yourself and play with it. It is the first step down the road of finding and fixing bugs in Perl yourself. There can never be enough people with those skills.
:) Re:5.8.1
RobertX on 2003-09-27T16:37:00
Cool beans then.Re:5.8.1
jdavidb on 2003-09-29T19:35:17
All that being said, I still want to encourage you to compile it yourself and play with it. It is the first step down the road of finding and fixing bugs in Perl yourself. There can never be enough people with those skills.
:) It's somewhat dated, and it may not apply to compiling for Windows outside of Cygwin, but here's my perl build instructions.
Re:5.8.1
RobertX on 2003-09-30T09:25:58
Thanks, I have MinGW and not the Cygwin stuff. The latests MinGW errors out on "minperl".
