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$/gz/ if you really want a 28% larger download.)
coming soon to a CPAN mirror near you soon as
ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/src/perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2
shasums are
818a140d9c04ea8dab3a05104b34ced7f7d9d0a91bfed91baf89a84d0dfb1bc9 perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2
e15d499321e003d12ed183601e37ee7ba5f64b278d1de30149ce01bd4a3f234d perl-5.8.8.tar.gz
md5sums are
a377c0c67ab43fd96eeec29ce19e8382 perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2
b8c118d4360846829beb30b02a6b91a7 perl-5.8.8.tar.gz
The use.perl announcement will be in a day or so, once it's had time to
propagate round CPAN.
Nicholas Clark
Adding a little gold to the green, here is the defined-or part
> http://www.ccl4.org/~nick/P/perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2
+ http://www.xs4all.nl/~procura/dor-5.8.8.diff
> (or s/bz2$/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.
--
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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
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reports to: smokers...@perl.org, per...@perl.org
> 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
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
[...]
> 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."
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
Good work Nick!
--
Richard Foley
Ciao - shorter than aufwiedersehen
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