Follow the bouncing pumpkin: Leon for 5.5.4
Chip Salzenberg
latest victim^Wgenerous remover of entropy for maintenance of 5.5.
He can speak for himself on his plans, but I know he'll at least be
taking care of those pesky errors that befall anyone who tries to
compile 5.5 with modern gcc....
Please join me in piling on the, uh, congratulations. :-)
--
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"I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence,
but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early." // MST3K
Leon Brocard
> Please join me in piling on the, uh, congratulations. :-)
Thank you for the wonderful introduction.
My plan is to release a 5.5.4 soonish which builds under modern
operating systems and with modern libraries.
I really believe in Nicholas' view that it is a moral imperative to
maintain old releases of Perl. I don't plan on changing much at
all. Bug fixes will not be part of 5.5.4. Security fixes won't be part
of 5.5.4. This is much like 5.6.2.
Suggestions and offers of help welcome.
[Unfortunately, I won't have much time to work on this before
christmas, but I'll get the hacking started and then have a better
idea of how long till the release].
Many thanks to the previous pumpkins for getting us on this road, Leon
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H.Merijn Brand
> Chip Salzenberg sent the following bits through the ether:
>
> > Please join me in piling on the, uh, congratulations. :-)
>
> Thank you for the wonderful introduction.
And good luck in this new maze of twisty little hackery
> My plan is to release a 5.5.4 soonish which builds under modern
> operating systems and with modern libraries.
>
> I really believe in Nicholas' view that it is a moral imperative to
> maintain old releases of Perl. I don't plan on changing much at
> all. Bug fixes will not be part of 5.5.4. Security fixes won't be part
> of 5.5.4. This is much like 5.6.2.
>
> Suggestions and offers of help welcome.
Start with the hint files, and Makfile.SH
when you think you're ready, ask^Wtell Abe what you need for 5.5.4 smokes
make 5.5.4 rsync'able (which I think it already is) and go for white
> [Unfortunately, I won't have much time to work on this before
> christmas, but I'll get the hacking started and then have a better
> idea of how long till the release].
>
> Many thanks to the previous pumpkins for getting us on this road, Leon
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Michael G Schwern
> Suggestions and offers of help welcome.
Upgrading MakeMaker might help. Also maybe h2ph and xsubpp. And if you
upgrade MakeMaker you've got to pull in Test::More.
Muhahaha! Better than a time machine that is. :)
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Rafael Garcia-Suarez
>
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 03:06:57PM +0000, Leon Brocard wrote:
> > Suggestions and offers of help welcome.
>
> Upgrading MakeMaker might help. Also maybe h2ph and xsubpp. And if you
> upgrade MakeMaker you've got to pull in Test::More.
That's a slightly non-trivial task, because you will need other changes
to the perl core to make it happy. Look at change #20984 to see how I
did it for 5.6.2. And before doing this you'll need to upgrade Test::*
and t/harness / t/TEST.
Abe Timmerman
H.Merijn Brand:
> On Wed 26 Nov 2003 16:06, Leon Brocard <ac...@astray.com> wrote:
> > Chip Salzenberg sent the following bits through the ether:
> > > Please join me in piling on the, uh, congratulations. :-)
> >
> > Thank you for the wonderful introduction.
>
> And good luck in this new maze of twisty little hackery
And from me too! Thank you for taking this task upon you, Leon.
> > Suggestions and offers of help welcome.
>
> Start with the hint files, and Makfile.SH
> when you think you're ready, ask^Wtell Abe what you need for 5.5.4 smokes
> make 5.5.4 rsync'able (which I think it already is) and go for white
Asking will do :-)
Here is the current state of affairs:
Automated smoke report for 5.00503 patch 18681 on linux - 2.4.18-4gb (i686/1
cpu)
(fikkie) using cc version 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE)
Report by Test::Smoke v1.18.11 (perl 5.6.1) [23 minutes 26 seconds]
O = OK F = Failure(s), extended report at the bottom
X = test(s) failed under TEST but not under harness
? = still running or test results not (yet) available
Build failures during: - = unknown or N/A
c = Configure, m = make, M = make (after miniperl), t = make test-prep
18681 Configuration (common) -Ui_db
------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------
O O
O O -Duse64bitint
O O -Duselongdouble
O O -Dusemorebits
| +--------- -DDEBUGGING
+----------- no debugging
Summary: PASS
If you want, I'll try to update my smoke-farm this weekend and run this
5.005xx smoke on them to get an impression.
Good luck,
Abe
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I'm excising the "promise" from perldelta and replacing it with more
non-committal mumbling.
-- Jarkko Hietaniemi on p5p @ 2002-05-27