I'd really like to see what versions can be expected to compile on what platforms. I was trying to load 5.14.2 today on Itanium at work and kept running into problems. I think the last thing I saw anyone talk about on the mailing list was 5.12. I'd hate to start a build that had no hopes of finishing successfully on my Alpha workstation at home. It would be nice to have a matrix of hardware/vms version/perl version describing what works and what needs work.
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Craig A. Berry <craigbe...@mac.com> wrote: > > On Dec 21, 2012, at 5:04 PM, Thomas Pfau <tfp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > A Google search for "vms perl" returns www.sidhe.org/vmsperl/ and > www.vmsperl.com/ among the top results. Neither of these has current > information about Perl on VMS. The first refers to Perl 5.6.1 (released in > 2000) and the other contains no information at all. > > > > Could we get some more recent information about Perl on VMS on one of > these sites or create a new site for this purpose? Or are we relying on HP > to keep vital information updated on their VMS Perl page? I'll volunteer > some time to get this off the ground if others are interested and someone > provides a server. > > Bless you, that would be fabulous. I was not aware of the vmsperl.comdomain; > I would guess it's just someone parking on it. > > The sidhe.org site is owned by Dan Sugalski. I used to have access to it > (maybe I still do) but I'm afraid I've never found time to do anything with > it. I vaguely recall someone else volunteering to update it a few years > ago, but that never happened. > > There are places to follow what's going on, such as this mailing list, or > seeing what I've been up to in git history: < > http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git?a=search&h=HEAD&st=author&s=craigberry>. > But it would be very nice to have a simple, friendly site that would show > up in web searches. > > The perl.org site is looking rather nice these days and I'd be willing to > ask if we could get vmsperl.perl.org or perl.org/vmsperl and just use > their stylesheets and so on. > > > > ________________________________________ > Craig A. Berry > mailto:craigbe...@mac.com > > "... getting out of a sonnet is much more > difficult than getting in." > Brad Leithauser > > -- Thomas Pfau tfp...@gmail.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/thomaspfau http://nbpfaus.net/~pfau/
