Re: [MacPerl] The State of MacPerl

[Paul Hoffman]

At 12:52 PM -0500 1/30/01, Chris Nandor wrote:
>Soon we will be doing an analysis of the perl 5.6.1 code (still in
>development) to evaluate what would be necessary to move to 5.6.1.  I think
>most people would prefer releasing 5.6.1 instead of 5.6.0.

Yes, absolutely. I have been bitten by some really nasty, really 
quiet UTF-8 bugs in 5.6.0 which have supposedly been fixed in the 
5.6.1 development releases. I don't know what other serious bugs in 
5.6.0 are being fixed, but these are both embarrassing and deadly.