Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <003701c0ff09$24c39580$6131800a@ebs.enron.net> From: "B. K. Oxley \(binkley\)" To: Subject: perl 5.6.1 != 5.6.1-TRIAL1 Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 07:59:58 -0500 Organization: The Oxley Family MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Why does Cygwin still distribute Perl 5.6.1-TRIAL1 instead of the released 5.6.1 (possibly with Cygwin-specific patches)? This is annoying. For example, Math::BigInt got updated between TRIAL1 and the release, and this is causing dependency problems with Math::* modules. If it's simply a matter of nobody's done the work, I'll volunteer. I'll need instructions on how to make a distribution tarball. Cheers, --binkley -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/