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Date: | Thu, 05 Mar 2015 20:51:56 +0100 |
From: | Erwin Waterlander <waterlan AT xs4all DOT nl> |
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Subject: | Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-5.14.4-3 |
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Op 5-3-2015 om 20:14 schreef Achim Gratz: > I've promoted the test release to current. The release notes that > accompanied the test release are enclosed below. > > > General > ------- > > I'm taking over as Perl maintainer from Reini Urban. Thank you Reini > for the past years of maintining Perl. > > This release updates Perl to version 5.14.4 (the final release of 5.14) > and also incorporates a few upstream patches from later Perl versions > (most of which were already applied to the releases bei Reini). For > x86_64 this is mainly a rebuild with the current toolchain and a change > of packaging, while for i686 this is an actual update from version > 5.14.2. The update is expected to be fully binary compatible on both > architectures, so modules should need no rebuilding. > > This release is currently marked as test/experimental and will be > promoted to current in about two weeks. Therefore you need to select > the new version in setup manually for now. Please report any unusual > behaviour (or successes!) to the main Cygwin mailing list. > > Packaging > --------- > > Packaging has been changed to conform to current Cygwin standards and be > identical on both architectures. The package is provided via cygport. > Perl is now split among these packages: > > - perl_base (minimal installation, intended for use by Base packages) > - perl (completes the installation with additional modules) > - perl-debuginfo (replaces perl_debuginfo) > - perl_autorebase (integration with incrmental autorebase) > - perl_manpages (documentation, just the manpages) > - perl_pods (documentation, just the POD files) > > It is recommended to install perl_pods, which has formerly been part of > the perl package unless you really need the space or prefer the manpages > over perldoc. > > The perl_vendor package (which only exists on i686 anyway) will be > dissolved into individual packages for the Perl modules that comprise it > soon and is no longer part of this release. For the moment you can > continue using the old package, however. > > Changes > ------- > > Perlrebase has been removed. Instead the EUMM installer will do an > oblivious rebase when not started from cygport. Perl modules compiled > from cygport will be rebased during installation by Cygwin's setup. > Setup will also properly rebase modules installed into site_perl, so if > you see address collisions (this only happens with some regularity on > i686, on x86_64 auto image base usually does a good job of avoiding that > problem already), simply run setup without making any changes. > > The site_perl and vendor_perl directories for older Perl versions > (namely 5.10 and 5.8) are no longer in @INC. please update your modules > for 5.14 or use local::lib if you still want to use these locations. > > Outlook > ------- > > The next Perl release will most likely be 5.22, due to be released > upstream in May 2015. Depending on how fast it stabilizes, a Cygwin > release will follow in summer / autumn. > > > Regards, > Achim. Thanks a lot. -- Erwin Waterlander http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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