From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10259 invoked by alias); 7 Nov 2003 18:17:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 10240 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2003 18:17:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO redhat.com) (66.187.230.200) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 7 Nov 2003 18:17:48 -0000 Received: by redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 201) id D6F3D32A8A8; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 13:17:46 -0500 (EST) From: "Gerrit P. Haase" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-5.8.2-1 Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <20031107181746.D6F3D32A8A8@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 18:17:00 -0000 X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00228.txt.bz2 perl-5.8.2-1 release has been uploaded to sourceware -- it should be on the mirrors soon. News: - Cygwin Perl now with threads support. - No IPC support yet, helpers wanted. - perl-5.8.1 introduced some features which makes it binary incompatible with perl-5.8.0 in certain cases. The problem with hash randomisation has been fixed so it should be binary compatible with perl-5.8.0 now and the threads problem doesn't affect Cygwin since perl-5.8.0 was not available with threads. - perl-5.8.0 was removed from the distribution entirely, perl-5.6.1-2 remains as the previous version because perl-5.8.x still seems to be a little picky about the system running on, i.e. it doesn't like Win98/ME very much. More details in the official 'Perl 5.8.2 Release Announcement': http://use.perl.org/articles/03/11/07/117238.shtml?tid=6 As always, you should conduct an appropriate level of testing before using any new product in your production environment. Notes: The README ---------- A short document, perl-5.8.2.README is in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin. The output of 'perl -V' gives some infos about the compiletime and runtime settings of this perl binary. Setup.exe: ---------- Perl is in the category 'Interpreters'. Perl manpages are in the 'Doc' category. Your Perl Modules: ------------------ To get a summary of all the modules you installed for your current perl you can use the CPAN module (before you install perl-5.8.2), just start it as usual ($ /usr/bin/cpan) and type in the CPAN shell: cpan> autobundle to get a snapshot of 'your own' perl installation. To reinstall all the modules (after installing perl-5.8.2) type in the new CPAN shell: cpan> install Bundle::Snapshot_2002_07_29_00 Different Perl versions: ------------------------ It is possible to use more than one perl. To achieve this you cannot use setup.exe since it will remove previous perl installations before it installs perl-5.8.2, so you'll need to install perl-5.8.2 or perl-5.6.1 manually. >From your scripts you can call the different perl versions now with perl5.6.1 or perl5.8.0, /usr/bin/perl will be the version you installed lastly. MAINTAINER: =========== Gerrit P. Haase, 2003-08-29 GENERIC INFORMATION: INSTALLATION: ============= To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'perl' from the 'Interpreters' category. The perl manpages are in a separate package called perl_manpages in the category 'Doc'. Previous perl installed with setup.exe will be removed, but your custom modules won't be removed. See 'Modules' and 'Different Perl versions' section in the 'NOTES' below for details about possibilities of custom installation. DOWNLOAD: ========= Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update. These mirrors already got the package, the others will probably have the latest version of this package fairly soon: In the US, ftp://planetmirror.com/pub/cygwin/ and ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ are reliable high bandwidth connection. QUESTIONS: ========== If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: ================================= To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-YOU=YOURDOMAIN.COM@cygwin.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/