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Re: Perl 5.7.2
Christopher Faylor schrieb am 2001-10-08, 0:24:
>On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 11:10:50PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>>I'm having good luck building Perl 5.7.2:
>>
>>Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed
>>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>---
>>../ext/GDBM_File/gdbm.t 13 3328 68 66 97.06% 3-68
>>../lib/AnyDBM_File.t 0 139 ?? ?? % ??
>>../lib/Memoize/t/tie.t 2 512 4 4 100.00% 1-4
>>../lib/Memoize/t/tie_gdbm.t 2 512 4 4 100.00% 1-4
>> (3 subtests UNEXPECTEDLY SUCCEEDED), 19 tests and 116 subtests skipped.
>>Failed 4/427 test scripts, 99.06% okay. 74/23931 subtests failed, 99.69%
>>okay.
>>
>>This is a dynamic build. I know this is the "development" Perl version, but
>>if I can figure out how to package this up, would this be accepted into the
>>Cygwin distribution system?
>
>We already have two perl maintainers. This would be up to them.
>
>cgf
I don't think that it is a good idea to bundle an 'unstable' development
version. Perl 5.8 will be released soon and then it will be 'stable'.
We should wait until 5.8.
Gerrit
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