In case folks are unsure of how to acquire the latest development source code since the switch to git for version control, the following message shows the way. maint-5_10 is the name of the development stream that will become Perl 5.10.1, which should be out this summer, code freeze any day now. It's looking pretty good on VMS, but more testing is better.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nicholas Clark <n...@ccl4.org> Date: Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 4:33 AM Subject: Snapshots as tarballs (maint-5.10 too) To: perl5-port...@perl.org Something I wasn't aware of, which might be of use - gitweb can generate snapshots of any commit. Well, it should be able to, but something silly is up with the gitweb on perl5.git.perl.org. However, develooper.com can: To generate a compressed tarball of any commit on blead, see the snapshot links on http://git.develooper.com/?p=perl.git;a=shortlog For snapshots of maint-5.10, see the snapshot links on http://git.develooper.com/?p=perl.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/maint-5.10 Useful if you aren't able to install git, and you're behind a firewall that dislikes rsync, or any other impediment to source code. Nicholas Clark
