On Saturday, 2002-05-18 at 14:46:29 -0400, Allen Smith wrote: > On May 18, 7:14am, Lupe Christoph wrote:
> > Using more or less experimental code will not produce valid test > > results, so your work is wasted. Please stick to 5.6.1 and 5.005_03, > > those are the versions considered mpost stable. 5.6.0 has known bugs, > Umm... so does 5.005_03 (and, for that matter, 5.6.1). From observation here > when we had both 5.005_03 and 5.6.0 (now only the latter), I saw more > failures with 5.005_03 than with 5.6.0. Probably because 5.6.0 has been out so long, and people don't test their stuff with older releases. I still have a few machines at a client site that run 5.005_03. I should upgrade, but there are so many things more urgent... -r--r--r-- 1 lupe uucp 3433102 Jul 23 1998 /sw/archive/CPAN/src/perl5.005.tar.gz -r--r--r-- 1 lupe uucp 3679040 Mar 29 1999 /sw/archive/CPAN/src/perl5.005_03.tar.gz -r--r--r-- 1 lupe uucp 2856190 Apr 29 1999 /sw/archive/CPAN/src/perl5.004_05.tar.gz (perl5.004_05 got put back into CPAN then, AFAIR.) -r--r--r-- 1 lupe uucp 5443601 Mar 23 2000 /sw/archive/CPAN/src/perl-5.6.0.tar.gz -r--r--r-- 1 lupe uucp 5859105 Sep 2 2000 /sw/archive/CPAN/src/perl-5.7.0.tar.gz -r--r--r-- 1 lupe uucp 5983695 Apr 9 2001 /sw/archive/CPAN/src/perl-5.6.1.tar.gz -r--r--r-- 1 lupe uucp 7069918 Apr 10 2001 /sw/archive/CPAN/src/perl-5.7.1.tar.gz -r--r--r-- 1 lupe uucp 7775184 Jul 13 2001 /sw/archive/CPAN/src/perl-5.7.2.tar.gz -r--r--r-- 1 lupe uucp 9096782 Mar 5 05:00 /sw/archive/CPAN/src/perl-5.7.3.tar.gz I consider testing with 5.005_03 good work because there are lots of people who have 5.005_03. Solaris 8 includes it. And because AFAIK it has more incompatibilities with 5.6.1 than 5.6.0 has, it's harder to get people to upgrade. So I consider 5.6.0 less important. Not unimportant. > September 11, 2001 A Day That Shall Live In Infamy II It isn't days that kill people ... Lupe Christoph -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://free.prohosting.com/~lupe | | I have challenged the entire ISO-9000 quality assurance team to a | | Bat-Leth contest on the holodeck. They will not concern us again. | | http://public.logica.com/~stepneys/joke/klingon.htm |
