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Re: Availability for test: perl-5.6.1-1


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
> >
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