5.8.1
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Hrun screwed a finger in his ear and inspected it absently.
"Oh,", he said, "I expect in a minute the door will be
flung back and I'll be dragged off to some sort of temple
arena where I'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders
and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then
I'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then
I'll kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl
will show me the secret passage out of the place and we'll
liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure."
Hrun leaned his head back on his hands and looked at the
ceiling, whistling tunelessly.
"All that?" said Twoflower.
"Usually."
-- Terry Pratchett,
"The Colour of Magic"
Grab it:
http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl-5.8.1.tar.bz2
http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl-5.8.1.tar.gz
(or rsync -avz --delete ftp.linux.activestate.com::perl-5.8.x perl-5.8.x)
Or in a while:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/J/JH/JHI/perl-5.8.1.tar.gz
perldelta:
http://www.hut.fi/~jhi/perldelta-5.8.1.html
Thank you to you all. Hopefully the 5.8.1 is better than the 5.8.0 was.
Since the release is now out there propagating, there's precious little
I can do anymore, so I will now have a vacation. Quite a long one,
I think. I will write up An Official Announcement later when the CPAN
mirrors get updated.
--
Jarkko Hietaniemi <j...@iki.fi> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special
biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen
Abigail
>
> Thank you to you all. Hopefully the 5.8.1 is better than the 5.8.0 was.
> Since the release is now out there propagating, there's precious little
> I can do anymore, so I will now have a vacation. Quite a long one,
> I think. I will write up An Official Announcement later when the CPAN
> mirrors get updated.
Congrats! And T H A N K Y O U !
Abigail
Marcus Holland-Moritz
>
> http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/J/JH/JHI/perl-5.8.1.tar.gz
>
> perldelta:
>
> http://www.hut.fi/~jhi/perldelta-5.8.1.html
Congratulations!
> Thank you to you all. Hopefully the 5.8.1 is better than the 5.8.0 was.
> Since the release is now out there propagating, there's precious little
> I can do anymore, so I will now have a vacation. Quite a long one,
Enjoy! You really deserve it!
-- Marcus
H.Merijn Brand
> Grab it:
>
> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl-5.8.1.tar.bz2
> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl-5.8.1.tar.gz
>
> (or rsync -avz --delete ftp.linux.activestate.com::perl-5.8.x perl-5.8.x)
Congrats, Thanks, and all that :)
> Or in a while:
>
> http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/J/JH/JHI/perl-5.8.1.tar.gz
>
> perldelta:
>
> http://www.hut.fi/~jhi/perldelta-5.8.1.html
>
> Thank you to you all. Hopefully the 5.8.1 is better than the 5.8.0 was.
> Since the release is now out there propagating, there's precious little
> I can do anymore, so I will now have a vacation. Quite a long one,
Thinking about `real' baby's now? <ducking>
Well, just spend some time with your loved one's and enjoy the time off.
> I think. I will write up An Official Announcement later when the CPAN
> mirrors get updated.
--
H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/)
using perl-5.6.1, 5.8.0, & 5.9.x, and 806 on HP-UX 10.20 & 11.00, 11i,
AIX 4.3, SuSE 8.2, and Win2k. http://www.cmve.net/~merijn/
http://archives.develooper.com/daily...@perl.org/ per...@perl.org
send smoke reports to: smokers...@perl.org, QA: http://qa.perl.org
Enache Adrian
> Grab it:
Wow! I'll drink a dozen beers in your honour!
Chip Turner
Awesome!
> Thank you to you all. Hopefully the 5.8.1 is better than the 5.8.0 was.
> Since the release is now out there propagating, there's precious little
> I can do anymore, so I will now have a vacation. Quite a long one,
> I think. I will write up An Official Announcement later when the CPAN
> mirrors get updated.
Thanks to you as well for the incredible amount of cat herding it
takes to get a release out. Congratulations!
/me scurries off to build RPMs :)
Chip
--
Chip Turner ctu...@redhat.com
Red Hat, Inc.
H.Merijn Brand
>
> http://www.hut.fi/~jhi/perldelta-5.8.1.html
--8<---
A new operator // (defined-or) will be available. This means that one will be
able to say
$a // $b
instead of
defined $a ? $a : $b
and
$c //= $d;
instead of
$c = $d unless defined $c;
The operator will have the same precedence and associativity as ||. A source
code patch against the Perl 5.8.1 sources will be available in CPAN as
authors/id/H/HM/HMBRAND/dor-5.8.1.diff.
-->8---
The uploaded file
dor-5.8.1.diff
has entered CPAN as
file: $CPAN/authors/id/H/HM/HMBRAND/dor-5.8.1.diff
size: 380389 bytes
md5: 13709581c1201ef22036dc4d00600954
No action is required on your part
Request entered by: HMBRAND (H. Merijn Brand)
Request entered on: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:12:23 GMT
Request completed: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:13:58 GMT
Andy Dougherty
> Thank you to you all. Hopefully the 5.8.1 is better than the 5.8.0 was.
Thank you! Enjoy your well-earned vacation.
--
Andy Dougherty doug...@lafayette.edu
Dave Mitchell
--
O Unicef Clearasil!
Gibberish and Drivel!
- "Bored of the Rings"
Alan Burlison
> Thank you to you all. Hopefully the 5.8.1 is better than the 5.8.0 was.
> Since the release is now out there propagating, there's precious little
> I can do anymore, so I will now have a vacation. Quite a long one,
> I think. I will write up An Official Announcement later when the CPAN
> mirrors get updated.
Make sure you include a puff for your new book ;-)
http://bleaklow.com/blog/archive/000040.html
Many, many thanks and enyoy your well-earned rest!
--
Alan Burlison
--
Nicholas Clark
> Thank you to you all. Hopefully the 5.8.1 is better than the 5.8.0 was.
Given hat the 5.8.0 was rather good in the first place, you set yourself
a high target
Thanks for all your pumpkingeering.
Nicholas Clark
Chip Salzenberg
donating whiskey to Jarkko's recovery when next we meet.
PS: A nit: In perldelta, my POSIX::SigAction safe signal patch is
misfiled under the "-C" heading. Should I just fix it in p4?
--
Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <ch...@pobox.com>
"I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence,
but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early." // MST3K
Elaine -Hfb- Ashton
*>
*>Thinking about `real' baby's now? <ducking>
Life a little dull these days, needing a little danger to spice it up
Merijn? :)
After 3+ years of this stuff he'll have to reintroduce himself first
before getting quite /that/ familiar....
e.
H.Merijn Brand
> h.m....@hccnet.nl took his life in his hands and wrote:
> *>
> *>Thinking about `real' baby's now? <ducking>
>
> Life a little dull these days, needing a little danger to spice it up
> Merijn? :)
:) [ FWIW two's enough for me ]
Releasing 10 different builds of 5.8.1 for HP-UX right now. So yes, dull, but
rewarding and time consuming. 14 kbps upload, 10 x 20 Meg. 5 done so far.
perl-5.8.1 + DBI + Tk (and some other modules) with and without
defined-or for HP-UX 10.20, HP-UX 11.00/32, HP-UX 11.00/64,
HP-UX 11.11/32, and HP-UX 11.11/64
See https://www.beepz.com/personal/merijn/ or http://www.cmve.net/~mbrand/
> After 3+ years of this stuff he'll have to reintroduce himself first
> before getting quite /that/ familiar....
Don't wear him out ... we might need him later on
> e.
love, enjoy the holiday.
Dan Kogai
On Thursday, Sep 25, 2003, at 21:01 Asia/Tokyo, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> Thank you to you all. Hopefully the 5.8.1 is better than the 5.8.0
> was.
Thank you for all the pumpkingeering ((c) Nick Clark (?)).
Encode-wise, it definitely is. To me 5.8.0 -> 5.8.1 was as tough and
demanding as 5.7.x -> 5.8.0. I am also glad I did not have to resort
to releasing Encode 1.100 .
> Since the release is now out there propagating, there's precious little
> I can do anymore, so I will now have a vacation. Quite a long one,
> I think.
Enjoy. You deserve a long one.
Dan the (Perl5 Porter|Encode Maintainer)