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Perl 5.8.0 RC1 Released
Posted by
pudge
on Mon Jun 03, 2002 09:10 AM
from the bleading-goodness dept.
from the bleading-goodness dept.
mbadolato writes "use Perl; is reporting that the long-awaited Perl 5.8 has just been released in the form of RC1.
It is a release candidate, and is not recommended for use in a production environment, but downloading and testing is strongly encouraged. Read the story for the announcement, and also read perldelta to see what's changed." I think this might be the best .0 release in Perl 5's history, and is will also be the first release of perl to ship with full support for Mac OS X (perl 5.6.1 had a few nagging issues), as well as Classic Mac OS.
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Re:uh, pudge.....? (Score:3, Informative)
Please note that Perl 5.8.0 is a major new release of Perl containing many new features, enhancements to existing features and bug fixes
Since this is a "major" release in the 5.X branch of perl this does qualify for a ".0" release.
In recent history:
First there was the 5.005_X (which was like 5.5.X).
Next there was the 5.6.X branch
Now there is the 5.8.X branch
All of these are part of the perl5 language version like there was a perl4 language.
The 6.X will be a major (or complete, depending on how you look at it) rewrite of the language, it would be a major major release?
Re:uh, pudge.....? (Score:1)
Re:"Perl ... is not recommended for use " (Score:1, Troll)
Re:"Perl ... is not recommended for use " (Score:1)
Great release (Score:2, Informative)
I had been not following the development of 5.8, so It's been a bit of shocking to see the impresssing range of changes.
It looks that the two major issues that had been hampering perl (threads and unicode) have now improved a lot. And the PerlIO api is great.
I've downloaded it and I am testing it already. Big Kudos and thanks for the hard work.