On Sat 28 Oct, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 08:10:18PM +0100, Richard Proctor wrote:
> > On Sat 28 Oct, James Taylor wrote:
> > > PS. Is anyone working on a port of Perl 5.6 ?
> > >
> >
> I went to YAPC::Europe and while there had a chat with Jarkko Hietaniemi
> about merging the RISC OS port back into the main tree. Things sort of
> stalled about 2 years ago on this. One thing he doesn't like is the way
> thing like os_file are called with magic numbers (such as 5) - and was
> expecting symbolic constants (of the sort defined in header files)
> I showed him a copy of the RISC OS PRM to demonstrate that they *are* names
> not numbers :-)
Unfortunately I missed YAPC::Europe, I was out of the country with a dead
modem when the call to register came out, and by the time I was back it
was too late.
> Currently I think the best compromise (one certainly acceptable to me and
> to him) was to #define all the numbers needed for things like OS_File,
> OS_GBPB etc in one place (presumably riscosish.h). I was intending to
> cut&paste the definitions used by OSLib, but was intending *not* to make
> perl dependent on anther library's headers.
I think there are many solutions
> I'm about to see if I can get sfio2000 ported (sfio98 was mostly done about
> 2 years ago) as it's better than UnixLib stdio, and allows more reliable
> sticking of libraries in zip files. Which is probably going to be wanted
> as an option for size reasons (as well as long filenames and 77 directory
> entry limits) as with Unicode current bleading edge perl has 7408522 bytes
> of files in the lib directory.
Worth doing, though with RO4, it is less of an issue.
>
> Personally I'm not using 5.6 for production purposes (on Unix) because
> rather too much of Unicode support is a mess, (and it's not an compile
> time option to disable it). 5.6.1 should be considerably better (but
> not perfect), but 5.6.1 doesn't seem to be very happening.
> [5.6.1 is effectively going to be bug fixes back-patched from the 5.7
> tree]
>
Neither am I. One site I manage still has 5.004... Though I admit to having
5.6 on my laptop - I had to reload recently and just loaded most recent.
> Nicholas Clark
>
>
Richard
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