Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <00a801c2ff86$e0822000$bc46893e@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: , References: Subject: Re: Some complaints about Perl 5.8.0 Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 18:29:32 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 jurgen.defurne@philips.com wrote: > Dear all, > > My main complaint is that it is shoved a little bit to literally into > one's throat. Perl 5.8.0 has been available as 'experimental' packages for Cygwin for *months*. > Yes, I know I can choose on the installer, but everytime I want to update > some things, I have to check that Perl is not replaced. Now the installer > has shoved Perl 5.8.0 on my system (luckily a test system), which first > of all means that all modules I installed on 5.6.0 I have to redo for > 5.8.0. > > -> Never break an existing system inadvertently ! Never upgrade software on an important system without careful consideration! > Since there are other things which seem to be optional, Perl 5.8.0 also > could have been optional. "Since there are other things..." - What other things do you mean? Once a package is released as 'current', setup will auto-upgrade, as you have observed. Possibly, setup should provide an option to keep versions constant by default. Patches gratefully accepted. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/