On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 06:27:51PM -0500, Stephen Clouse wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 01:15:57PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: > > Perl 5.8.1 release candidate 4 is now available for testing from > > your favorite CPAN mirror at: > > I've been working with it since RC3. DBI and DBD::Oracle appear fine.
Thanks. At this point testing Perl 5.8.1 with all the modules and scripts you use is a more important goal than just testing the DBI and drivers. The issue isn't so much whether DBI and DBD::foo work with 5.8.1, but whether 5.8.1 has bugs that could be found and fixed before release. Perl 5.8.1 is been very well tested during development (the perl test suite has over 1500 new tests) but given the nature of Perl there's bound to be code "in the wild" that does something unusual. So the more real code that 5.8.1 is tested with the better. Tim.
