From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Charles Wilson To: Jerome BENOIT Cc: egf7@columbia.edu, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Availability for test: perl-5.6.1-1 Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 23:10:00 -0000 Message-id: <3A45A247.223FD088@ece.gatech.edu> References: <000701c06bee$b7528180$073770c2@fifer> <3A458025.15D748C@Wanadoo.fr> X-SW-Source: 2000-12/msg01082.html Use perldoc instead. The man pages are redundant and take up 2M extra download space. Ditto the html documentation. --Chuck Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > Bonjour: > > Where are the man pages ? > > Merry Xmas > > Eric Fifer wrote: > > > > I have just uploaded perl-5.6.1-1 to sourceware -- it should be on the > > mirrors > > soon. perl is marked as a 'test' release, so you may have to specifically > > select it in setup to install (see INSTALLATION below). > > > > This TEST release is based on perl-5.6.1-TRIAL1: > > > > http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2000-12/msg00922.html > > > > Despite being a TRIAL and not recommended for production systems, > > it has many bug fixes since 5.6.0 and passes 100% of the test > > suite. The final perl-5.6.1 release is not expected until late > > January, so this may be a prolonged test phase. > > > > Be sure to read the /usr/doc/Cygwin/perl-5.6.1.README for details about > > this release. In particular, it already includes the Bundle::CPAN > > modules so you can quickly start downloading from CPAN. > > > > INSTALLATION: > > > > To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on > > the http://www.cygwin.com web page. This downloads setup.exe to your > > system. Run setup and answer all of the questions. > > > > ********************************************************************** > > *** PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, choose a mirror site for your download *** > > ********************************************************************** > > > > even if it might take a while until this new archive is propagated > > to the mirrors. The 'sources.redhat.com' site is badly overloaded. > > The mirrors below will probably have the latest version of this > > package fairly soon: > > > > ftp://ftp.sunsite.utk.edu/pub/cygwin/ (US) > > ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/mirrors/cygnus/ > > (Germany) > > ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/pc/cygwin/ (Greece) > > > > To install this TEST version of perl you will have to tell setup.exe to > > specifically install it by clicking on the Exp (experimental) button > > and possibly the arrows to the left of the perl package line. > > > > Happy Holidays, > > > > Eric Fifer > > > > -- > > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > > Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple