Today Tom "Spot" Callaway of RedHat mailed perl5-porters to say:
Today, perl 5.10.0 went into Fedora rawhide, which will become Fedora 9.
A few additional changes were committed with this release:
- Fedora is now tracking all of its patches in
patchlevel.h- The
sitedirandsitearchdirectories are now located under/usr/local, to make it very clear that files installed by CPAN did not come from Fedora packages (they still work fine).We got a tremendous amount of help from the perl 5 porters community, especially Andy Armstrong, Nicholas Clark, and Rafael Garcia-Suarez. Without your help, we would not have been able to meet the Fedora deadline.
The Fedora 9 beta release is scheduled for March 20, and the final F-9 release is scheduled for April 29, 2008.
Thanks again for all of your help,
~spot
Cool. So all the swearing at Math::Pari and staying up past midnight on Saturday was worth it. However, I note that there is some irony that of the three people named for their help, none actually use Fedora.
Re:Wow
nicholas on 2008-03-11T09:59:25
Ubuntu Heron
I have no idea. It's not like they talk to us.
Most of the Linux* vendors are notoriously bad at communication upstream to perl5-porters, with the result that usually we often don't even know the e-mail address(es) of the relevant people. It's been a pleasant change having someone from RedHat actually approach us and work with us.
* Of the non-Linux OSes, FreeBSD, OS X and Solaris and (of all things) Stratus VOS are not in that list. The EBCDIC vendor, on the other hand...
Re:Wow
stu42j on 2008-03-11T18:48:12
Looks like they are trying to get Perl 5.10 into Debian Lenny: http://wiki.debian.org/Perl5.10Transition
