On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 12:45:33PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > I see Nicholas Clark has been hard at work integrating patches into > perl5.8.x. Trying a build on cygwin at patch 25494 passes all tests > except for op/layers.t, which should be fixed once 24764 is > integrated.
Ooh. Thanks for testing this. I see from Steve Hay's smoke that I broke Win32. But I've not yet worked out why/how to fix it. > It would be nice if the version number could be bumped to 5.8.8 soon; > I inadvertently installed over my 5.8.7 :) Until such time as someone figures out how to make "maint" type releases highly visible in the version number (or at least the -v output) I intend to continue refraining from bumping the version number until the first release candidate. It's something I've had no inspiration for. It's the first task mentioned in the TODO for the category "Tasks that need a little C knowledge" http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse?file=pod%2Fperltodo.pod&rev= (been moderately hard at work reordering the TODO to put the easier things earlier) Nicholas Clark
