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Nicholas Clark

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Jan 31, 2006, 7:20:19 PM1/31/06
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It's not that easy bein' green
Having to spend each day the color of the leaves
When I think it could be nicer being red or yellow or gold
Or something much more colorful like that

It's not easy bein' green
It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're
Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water
Or stars in the sky

But green's the color of Spring
And green can be cool and friendly-like
And green can be big like an ocean
Or important like a mountain
Or tall like a tree

When green is all there is to be
It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why?
Wonder I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful
And I think it's what I want to be

Bein' Green, by Joe Raposo


http://www.ccl4.org/~nick/P/perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2

(or s/bz2$/gz/ if you really want a 28% larger download.)

coming soon to a CPAN mirror near you soon as

ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/src/perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2

shasums are

818a140d9c04ea8dab3a05104b34ced7f7d9d0a91bfed91baf89a84d0dfb1bc9 perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2
e15d499321e003d12ed183601e37ee7ba5f64b278d1de30149ce01bd4a3f234d perl-5.8.8.tar.gz

md5sums are

a377c0c67ab43fd96eeec29ce19e8382 perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2
b8c118d4360846829beb30b02a6b91a7 perl-5.8.8.tar.gz

The use.perl announcement will be in a day or so, once it's had time to
propagate round CPAN.

Nicholas Clark

H.Merijn Brand

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Feb 1, 2006, 3:45:59 AM2/1/06
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On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 00:20:19 +0000, Nicholas Clark <ni...@ccl4.org> wrote:

Adding a little gold to the green, here is the defined-or part

> http://www.ccl4.org/~nick/P/perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2

+ http://www.xs4all.nl/~procura/dor-5.8.8.diff

> (or s/bz2$/gz/ if you really want a 28% larger download.)
>
> coming soon to a CPAN mirror near you soon as
>
> ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/src/perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2

+ ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/H/HM/HMBRAND/dor-5.8.8.diff

> shasums are
>
> 818a140d9c04ea8dab3a05104b34ced7f7d9d0a91bfed91baf89a84d0dfb1bc9 perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2
> e15d499321e003d12ed183601e37ee7ba5f64b278d1de30149ce01bd4a3f234d perl-5.8.8.tar.gz

9d8eecaa572cb5a10feea2038ff7ab183816f607 dor-5.8.8.diff

> md5sums are
>
> a377c0c67ab43fd96eeec29ce19e8382 perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2
> b8c118d4360846829beb30b02a6b91a7 perl-5.8.8.tar.gz

28c5dd29c7d29ec78552a0bb86961514 dor-5.8.8.diff

> The use.perl announcement will be in a day or so, once it's had time to
> propagate round CPAN.

--
H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/)
using Perl 5.6.2, 5.8.0, 5.8.5, & 5.9.2 on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00 & 11.11,
AIX 4.3 & 5.2, SuSE 9.2 & 9.3, and Cygwin. http://www.cmve.net/~merijn
Smoking perl: http://www.test-smoke.org, perl QA: http://qa.perl.org
reports to: smokers...@perl.org, per...@perl.org

H.Merijn Brand

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Feb 1, 2006, 4:13:48 AM2/1/06
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On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:02:53 +0000, Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões
<al...@bombordo.di.uminho.pt> wrote:

> And, if you write code using it, you can't distribute it. I think this
> is a bad approach.

I don't. If you have control over what is distributed, there is no problem.
All our customers get a perl version that I built myself, and it includes
defined-or. All my builds for HP-UX that you can find on my web pages include
defined-or.

Most - if not all by now - of my production perl scripts use defined-or. I
cannot live without it.

If I write code that is to be run on perl's that are beyond my control, I
cannot use it. Sad, but true, but there are more and more modules that
require a certain level of perl and drop support for 5.005, 5.6 or even
5.8.[012]

Anyway, this approach was decided on, so I won't change it, and will (try to)
support dor for the complete 5.8.x life-cycle

Nicholas Clark

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Feb 1, 2006, 12:42:14 PM2/1/06
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On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 12:20:19AM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:

While I remember, something new to me that I found on my travels were
alternative lyrics sung by the grouch about being green:

http://members.tripod.com/Tiny_Dancer/green.html

Nicholas Clark

David Landgren

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Feb 2, 2006, 1:29:40 PM2/2/06
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Nicholas Clark wrote:

[...]

> coming soon to a CPAN mirror near you soon as
>
> ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/src/perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2

Nicholas++ # on behalf of Perl users everywhere

--
"It's overkill of course, but you can never have too much overkill."

Nicholas Clark

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Feb 12, 2006, 2:49:48 PM2/12/06
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On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 07:29:40PM +0100, David Landgren wrote:
> Nicholas Clark wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >coming soon to a CPAN mirror near you soon as
> >
> > ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/src/perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2
>
> Nicholas++ # on behalf of Perl users everywhere

Thanks.
And thanks for your summaries.

I guess I can't have it both ways - it's good not getting criticism and
problems reported that want fixing, but this seems to come at the price of
not getting the flipside either.

Nicholas Clark

Richard Foley

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Feb 23, 2006, 12:16:40 PM2/23/06
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Nice to see someone still at the sharp end ;-)

Good work Nick!

--
Richard Foley
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