RE: Release of ActivePerl 5.8.0

2002-11-14 Thread Harald Wopenka
d old trim()" will always be my answer ;) Harry -Original Message- From: Mark Mielke [mailto:mark@;mark.mielke.cc] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 6:31 PM To: Harald Wopenka Cc: Cameron Dorey; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Release of ActivePerl 5.8.0 On Thu, Nov 14

Re: Comparisons was [4]: Release of ActivePerl 5.8.0 - released today

2002-11-12 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Jan Dubois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > That's why I asked you if the -O option worked. I think the standard > editions of Microsoft compilers don't include the optimizer. Seems to be > true for VC++ 6 too: > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/productinfo/previou

Re: Comparisons was [4]: Release of ActivePerl 5.8.0 - released today

2002-11-11 Thread Jan Dubois
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:41:47 +1100, "Sisyphus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In the end, I downloaded build 626 built by AS and compared its performance >to the 626 that I built, by running that script that I posted the other day. > >626 built by AS took 2.94 seconds. >626 built by me took 4.64 seco

Comparisons was [4]: Release of ActivePerl 5.8.0 - released today

2002-11-11 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Sisyphus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jan Dubois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 8:55 AM Subject: Re: Re[4]: Release of ActivePerl 5.8.0 - released today > > - Origina

Re: Re[2]: Release of ActivePerl 5.8.0 - released today

2002-11-11 Thread Jack
- Original Message - From: "Jan Dubois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 1:26 PM Subject: Re: Re[2]: Release of ActivePerl 5.8.0 - released today > I haven't followed

Re: Re[4]: Release of ActivePerl 5.8.0 - released today

2002-11-11 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Jan Dubois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Are you sure you used the same compilation options? Especially, did you > set all 3 of USE_MULTI, USE_ITHREADS and USE_IMP_SYS? > Yes, I accepted the 'BUILD_FLAVOR=ActivePerl' option which sets USE_MULTI and USE_ITHREADS. 'P

Re: Re[2]: Release of ActivePerl 5.8.0 - released today

2002-11-11 Thread Jan Dubois
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002 22:31:53 -0600 (CST), Randy Kobes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I was wondering about the 5.8 repository at >http://www.activestate.com/ppmpackages/5.8-windows/ - it doesn't >seem to include packages that need a C compiler, like DBI. Is it >just too early for these, or is there a

Re: Re[2]: Release of ActivePerl 5.8.0 - released today

2002-11-11 Thread Jan Dubois
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:13:30 -0700, "Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> No, it is not. Tk is already included in ActivePerl 802, so there is no >> need to install it from the repository. > >Before I download and install - can you tell me which version of Tk this is? > >I assume 800.024 - or hav

Re: Re[2]: Release of ActivePerl 5.8.0 - released today

2002-11-11 Thread Jack
- Original Message - From: "Jan Dubois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 12:19 PM Subject: Re: Re[2]: Release of ActivePerl 5.8.0 - released today > > > >Do you know whether Tk

Re: Re[4]: Release of ActivePerl 5.8.0 - released today

2002-11-11 Thread Jan Dubois
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 14:13:34 +1100, "Sisyphus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yes, because gcc 2.95.2 is really a worse compiler compared to VC++ 6. It >> runs a lot slower, but more importantly, the code it generates is also >> about 20% slower than the code that VC++ generates. > >This is not wh

Re: Re[2]: Release of ActivePerl 5.8.0 - released today

2002-11-11 Thread Jan Dubois
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 10:21:12 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On 10/11/2002 04:54:57 Jan Dubois wrote: > >>Yes, the current repository is just the result of the first automated run >>for ActivePerl 8xx. We already noticed that even some of the modules that >>always used to pass are still missing.

Re: Re[2]: Release of ActivePerl 5.8.0 - released today

2002-11-08 Thread Scott Carr
It appears forking is working alot better in this release. It fixed a problem I have been chasing with a script. So far, so good. Have fun -- Scott Carr Documentation Maintainer OpenOffice.org Quoting Jan Dubois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 17:33:45 +0100, Robert Allerstor

Re: Release of ActivePerl 5.8.0

2002-11-01 Thread David Sparks
Hello! I just wanted to let you know that we have been working on ActivePerl 5.8.0 and it is almost ready. We have run into a few problems preparing it, so ActivePerl 5.8.0 will have selected bug fixes merged in from the Perl maintenance track. ActivePerl 5.8.0-beta1 may or may not be released o

Release of ActivePerl 5.8.0

2002-10-31 Thread Robert Allerstorfer
Hi, does anybody know why ActiveState still has not released their Win32 port of Perl 5.8.0? 5.8.0 is the current stable release and is out since July 18. Maybe someone from ActiveState could say when something could be expected. Thanks, -- rob. ___ Pe