acme writes "The Perl 5 developer team is pleased to announce the Perl Release 5.005_04, the fourth maintenance release of Perl 5.005."
This release updates Perl 5.005 to enable building with current compiler/operating system configurations. Read on for more details.
Perl 5.005_04 is available via the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network:
Asia
ftp://mirrors.hknet.com/CPAN/src/perl5.005_04.tar.gz (Hong Kong)
ftp://ftp.ayamura.org/pub/CPAN/src/perl5.005_04.tar.gz (Japan)
http://mirror.kr.FreeBSD.org/CPAN/src/perl5.005_04.tar.gz (S. Korea)
ftp://ftp.nctu.edu.tw/UNIX/perl/CPAN/src/perl5.005_04.tar.gz (Taiwan)
Europe
http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/cpan/src/perl5.005_04.tar.gz (Denmark)
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/CPAN/src/perl5.005_04.tar.gz (Finland)
ftp://cpan.mirrors.easynet.fr/pub/ftp.cpan.org/src/perl5.005_04.tar.gz (France)
ftp://ftp.freenet.de/pub/CPAN/src/perl5.005_04.tar.gz (Germany)
ftp://download.xs4all.nl/pub/mirror/CPAN/src/perl5.005_04.tar.gz (NL)
ftp://ftp.flirble.org/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/src/perl5.005_04.tar.gz (UK)
North America
ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/src/perl5.005_04.tar.gz (CA)
http://www.cpan.org/src/perl5.005_04.tar.gz (CA)
http://mirrors.kernel.org/cpan/src/perl5.005_04.tar.gz (CA)
ftp://cpan.pair.com/pub/CPAN/src/perl5.005_04.tar.gz (PA)
The MD5 sum for the perl5.005_04.tar.gz is dc1946ff794ff81fb66343664f7a71af size 3757517 bytes.
5.005_04 is a maintenance release for perl 5.005 and mostly incorporates fixes to make it build under modern operating systems. Please see the perldelta for the full details.
Please report bugs using the perlbug utility. If the build or regression tests fail, make nok. If the build fails to early to run this, please mail perlbug at perl.org directly.
This is a source code release, not a binary release. You will need a C development environment to build the sources. Binary releases will be made available by various vendors.
5.005_05 is planned for mid 2004 and will also be concentrating on further portability fixes.
To build and install Perl, and to find out how to report problems, please read the INSTALL file, and any relevant README.platform file.
As specified in the licenses for Perl (see the files named Artistic or Copying), THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
As always, you should conduct an appropriate level of testing before using any new product in your production environment.
The "perldelta", which describes the most important changes for this release is available in the source distribution, or at:
http://search.cpan.org/user/lbrocard/perl5.005_04/pod/perldelta.pod
You can find much more about Perl at:
This release is dedicated to my bunny Tanja.
-- Leon Brocard, on behalf of the Perl5 Porters 2004-03-01"
