Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 10:56:51 +0200 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Reply-To: "Gerrit @ cygwin" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <130135623576.20020708105651@familiehaase.de> To: Greg Matheson CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: perl-5.8.0-RC2 (second Perl release candidate) for Cygwin is available In-Reply-To: <20020703105804.F88282@ms.chinmin.edu.tw> References: <20020703105804.F88282@ms.chinmin.edu.tw> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hallo Greg, Am Mittwoch, 3. Juli 2002 um 04:58 schriebst du: > With reference to Gerrit Haase's announcement, > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-06/msg01168.html, > I downloaded it and tried it out with > perl -i -pe s/in/out/ test.txt > and it didn't delete test.txt. I put > BEGIN > { > push @INC, > '/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/cygwin-multi', > , '/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1' > , '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/cygwin-multi' > , '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1' > , '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl' > , '.' > , '/usr/bin/perl' > ; > } > in an old 5.6.1 program and it seems to find the modules OK. Only pure Perl mopdules should be compatible. All modules which need compiling will need recompiling since perl-5.6 vs. 5.8 is not binary compatible. > Now I have to decide whether to start installing modules again in > the new places, or revert back to 5.6.1 and wait for the official > release. If you use setup.exe to install 5.8-RCx the perl-5.6.1 is uninstalled since the package names are the same. If there is an interest to keep perl-5.6.1 and to install perl-5.8 alongside 5.6.1 we'll find another name so there will be two perl packages. Gerrit -- "All faults& bugs are mine - Robert" from squid/acinclude.m4, Sun Apr 21 05:21:21 2002 -- 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/